WRITER-DIRECTOR Ari Aster's twisted family portrait performs a cinematic striptease, holding our gaze (even when we want to look away) by peeling away the layers of darkness and deceit that condemn one griefstricken family led by miniaturist artist Annie Graham (Toni Collette, pictured) to a grim fate.

It was Violet Chachki who shone in the striptease element of the show, the Drag Race queen of burlesque stuns with her clothes, her body and her knowledge of performance.

Hopefully, because WB wants to rekindle interest in the art form of burlesque: teasingly witty, sardonically sexy striptease. Unlike the sleazy pole-dancing form, burlesque usually features characters with narratives and the audience doesn't approach the dancers.

It has been claimed that women paid to have sex with Berlusconi dressed in nurse and police uniforms and performed stripteases at parties.

Her shows usually involve her performing saucy stripteases, wearing fishnet tights and suspenders - and she once even strutted her stuff at a bash wearing nothing but pounds 3million worth of diamonds.