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On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.


“Where her wildest fantasies turned to terror.”
Tanya is a female model who lives with her boyfriend Lobo, a surrealist painter who is extremely violent. Subjected to Lobo's constant abuse, Tanya dreams of escaping to a desert island, which comes true. The only other being on her island is an enormous blue-eyed man-ape who was born from one of Lobo's paintings.
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Vanity
Tanya (as D.D. Winters)
Richard Sargent
Lobo
Mariette Levesque
Kelly
Don McLeod
Blue (as Don McCloud)
Donny Burns
Blue's Voice (voice)
Tanya's Island is a fantasy, drama, romance film released in 1980 exploring themes of island, beach, model. Directed by Alfred Sole, it stars Vanity, Richard Sargent, Mariette Levesque. Tanya is a female model who lives with her boyfriend Lobo, a surrealist painter who is extremely violent. Subjected to Lobo's constant abuse, Tanya dreams of escaping to a desert island, which comes true. The only other being on her island is an enormous blue-eyed man-ape who was born from one of Lobo's paintings.
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