Castaway (1986)

A successful journalist and publisher (Oliver Reed) in his late 40s advertises in a magazine for a woman to share his life with him on a desert island for a year. A 20 something writer (Amanda Donohoe) answers the advert and they soon find themselves on the small uninhabited island of Tuin (between Australia and New Guinea). But their experiment doesn't quite turn out the way they had imagined it. Based on the non fiction book by Lucy Irvine and directed by Nicholas Roeg (DON'T LOOK NOW). If I hadn't known this was based on a true story, I would have said the movie was far fetched and improbable. The motives for its protagonists to live together on a desert island are never sufficiently explainted. It's an atypical Nicholas Roeg film and seems an oddity in his filmography. Reed and Donohoe give good performances although the camera lingers in an exploitative manner over Donohoe's nude body while making sure Reed's privates are discreetly hidden. The bonus is Harvey Harrison's location lensing of the Seychelle islands in the Indian Ocean which makes you want to hop on the next plane there. With Georgina Hale, John Sessions and Frances Barber.