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Two middle-aged women cleaners find themselves in a plush executive office, where they live out a fantasy of romance and luxury.
Series : Under the Skin | Episode : 2 | Year : 1993 | Total Duration : 27 Minutes | Producer : Franco di Chiera
Director : Teresa Crea |
MS woman in white veil and lacy white glove at window. MS tilt up reflective glass surface of office block and MS woman holding cakebox rushing through city traffic. MS woman leaving car and slamming door. MS adolescent schoolboy and schoolgirl kissing passionately at traffic lights. GS city street.
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Access No. 133592 | 1 min 34 secs | 1990s | Vic, Australia | © NFSA/SBS/Realworld Pictures | Colour |
Zoom out from red hat to window dresser in store window arranging hat, bra and handbags. MS woman watching. High angle shot over city traffic and WS woman laden with shopping running to entrance of city office building. Sequence with woman finally entering building, talking to security guard and attempting to greet fellow cleaner POV outside observer.
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Access No. 133595 | 54 secs | 1990s | Vic, Australia | © NFSA/SBS/Realworld Pictures | Colour |
Tilt up to two women walking along corridors of office building pushing cleaning trolleys. WS women entering lift after office workers walk out. CU up and down arrows in lift. MS older worker (Pasqualina) donning rubber gloves in toilets and VS cleaning urinals. Pasqualina hides in toilet cubicle on the sound of approaching office worker. High shot over Pasqualina in cubicle.
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Access No. 133596 | 1 min 41 secs | 1990s | Vic, Australia | © NFSA/SBS/Realworld Pictures | Colour |
Flashback scene to Pasqualina arriving in Australia as a young woman in the 1950s or 1960s. GS Pasqualina walking down gangplank of ship and being greeted by prospective husband. They kiss awkwardly and he takes her luggage to car. MS getting into car crowded with other men.
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Access No. 133597 | 46 secs | 1960s, 1990s, | Vic, Australia | © NFSA/SBS/Realworld Pictures | Colour |
MS Pasqualina sitting in toilet cubicle looking at her rubber gloves in reverie. MS of office workers feet leaving bathroom and Pasqualina emerging to continue cleaning. GS of her examining condom from dispenser. VS younger cleaner (Silvia) cleaning desk, looking in drawer and smelling handcream.
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Access No. 133598 | 39 secs | 1990s | Vic, Australia | © NFSA/SBS/Realworld Pictures | Colour |
Pasqualina cleaning shower, getting drenched and screaming. Silvia, trying on office worker's lipstick comes to bathroom on hearing scream and argues with Pasqualina (silently, with subtitles). GS security guard climbing stairs. The two women calm down and Silvia helps Pasqualina dry her dress under the hand-dryer with CUs to the medallions of saints Pasqualina has pinned to it.
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Access No. 133599 | 1 min 34 secs | 1990s | Vic, Australia | © NFSA/SBS/Realworld Pictures | Colour |
MS Pasqualina and Silvia having animated discussion about the perceived role of saints in Pasqualina's life. Silvia reacts bitterly. CU security camera screen flicking through various areas of building. MS security guard viewing monitors. Pasqualina and Silvia walking down corridor discussing condom Pasqualina found.
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Access No. 133600 | 1 min 46 secs | 1990s | Vic, Australia | © NFSA/SBS/Realworld Pictures | Colour |
CU swirling water to flashback of a young Pasqualina sitting in grass while her friends wash their clothes in a stream. CU to red bloodstain on her dress as she gets up. VS of Pasqualina and Silvia cleaning offices with Pasqualina bemoaning her childrens' attitude to sex while Silvia discovers hip flask in drawer and takes swig as she comments on life without children.
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Access No. 133601 | 2 mins 4 secs | 1960s, 1990s, | Vic, Australia | © NFSA/SBS/Realworld Pictures | Colour |
WS Silvia moving through offices POV outside building. VS Pasqualina cleaning and talking about sex. Silvia appears with bottles of vitamins. Flashback to Pasqualina climbing stairs with new husband Toni and nervously entering bedroom. VS sitting together on bed and her protesting as Toni roughly forces himself onto her.
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Access No. 133602 | 2 mins 56 secs | 1960s, 1990s, | Vic, Australia | © NFSA/SBS/Realworld Pictures | Colour |
Tilt up from Pasqualina rubbing her feet and VS of her talking to Silvia in semi-darkness in shy manner. CU women's faces as they enter executive suite. WS suite and the women admiring the expensive furniture and pretending to be a handsome executive. Pasqualina brings cakebox to table and CU to cake being cut.
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Access No. 133603 | 3 mins 44 secs | 1990s | Vic, Australia | © NFSA/SBS/Realworld Pictures | Colour |
CU champagne being poured into wide-rimmed glass in flash-back to Pasqualina and Toni's first wedding anniversary where they cut cake and make a toast. MS Toni and Pasqualina clinking glasses in toast so roughly that glass breaks. CU to Pasqualina's shocked face. VS Pasqualina and Silvia eating cake and drinking whisky seated either end of long table in executive office.
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Access No. 133604 | 45 secs | 1960s, 1990s, | Vic, Australia | © NFSA/SBS/Realworld Pictures | Colour |
VS Silvia dresses in dry-cleaned suit in office and pretends to be waiter taking Pasqualina's order. Pasqualina opens box with sheer red shirt Silvia bought to tempt her husband. The women pretend to call Silvia's husband then Pasqualina starts undressing to put it on and hesitates as she catches her reflection in a mirror.
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Access No. 133605 | 3 mins 1 sec | 1990s | Vic, Australia | © NFSA/SBS/Realworld Pictures | Colour |
Flashback with Pasqualina as a girl taking her first Holy Communion. VS Pasqualina meeting her future intended husband Tony who secures a bracelet around her wrist. Pasqualina in present time emerging wearing Silvia's red shirt. GS of the two women approaching each other shyly then zoom to them dancing slowly and stroking each other then kissing.
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Access No. 133606 | 2 mins 41 secs | 1960s, 1990s, | Vic, Australia | © NFSA/SBS/Realworld Pictures | Colour |
MS and CUs Pasqualina and Silvia embracing on floor. VS of the two women waking in the executive office with the sun rising over city buildings in background. MS Pasqualina and Silvia in slips rising to leave. CU slice of cake with rosebud on plate left by telephone. WS of office building shot at angle with Pasqualina and Silvia leaving seperately.
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Access No. 133607 | 1 min 56 secs | 1990s | Vic, Australia | © NFSA/SBS/Realworld Pictures | Colour |
WS rear view of Pasqualina walking down median strip away from camera on main street in early morning light.
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Access No. 133609 | -1 secs | 1990s | Vic, Australia | © NFSA/SBS/Realworld Pictures | Colour |
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