''Candy Regentag'' is a 1989 Australian film directed by

James Ricketson James Staniforth Ricketson is an Australian film director, known for the feature film ''Blackfellas''. He became more widely known when he was charged with espionage for flying a drone in Cambodia in 2017. Film career Ricketson studied at the A ...

about a young woman who works in a brothel. The movie was fully funded by the

Australian Film Commission The Australian Film Commission (AFC) was an Australian government agency was founded in 1975 with a mandate to promote the creation and distribution of films in Australia as well as to preserve the country's film history. It also had a producti ...

and was shot in 16mm in Kings Cross, Sydney during August and September 1986. Much of the film was shot in a brothel constructed for the film.

Release

The film took two years to get a cinema release. James Ricketson later said:

It was a story about a difficult kind of love between a man and a woman that happens to take place in the context of a brothel. But the same relationship could easily have taken place elsewhere. The man is incapable of making any kind of emotional commitment to the woman. The film was not hugely successful and I suppose I don't really think about it very much now. It's probably not a great film, but it's all right."Interview with James Ricketson", ''Signet'', 22 May 1995
Retrieved 20 November 2012

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''Candy Regentag''
at Oz Movies 1989 films Australian romantic drama films Films scored by Nigel Westlake Films shot in 16 mm film 1980s English-language films 1980s Australian films {{1980s-Australia-film-stub