Island is a 1989 Australian film directed by Paul Cox starring Irene Papas as Marquise.

Three women meet on a Greek island: Eva, a Czech born Australian with a drug addiction; Sahana, a Sri Lankan abandoned by her political activist husband; and Marquisa, an older Greek.

[5] The film was shot on Astypalaia, a Greek island in the Agean Sea, in 1988 over ten weeks.

[10] The Sydney Morning Herald called it "deceptively modest: touching and full of simple observations".

"[12] Cinema Papers wrote "the film has all the appropriate signs of human feelings — long gazes, 'meaningful' pauses, tearful goodbyes — but somehow these come across as superficial or not vividly expressed.

"[13] Critic Jan Epstein wrote the "cliched characterisations, emblem atic rather than original, suggest that Cox is at his best when he explores a perplexed, urban Australian consciousness.