Blanchett plays orgasmic spider in art film

Seeing Cate Blanchett enact the redback spiders deadly mating ritual has always been on our wish listand now the artist Del Kathryn Barton has delivered with her new film, Red, which is startling visitors at the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide (until 30 April). In a bid to depict the spiders frenzied sexual climax, Blanchett cuts her clothes apart to reveal a webbed body suit. But even Barton was taken aback by the Oscar-winning actresss passion for the part. Barton told the Sydney M