I don't like like hardcore films. At first I thought It was a french version ir Italian commedy like Malizia. I mean a cougar that shows her boobies and maybe an integral nude.
Maybe because was french, had a Emmanuelle or David Hamilton touch, and even a french twist.
My surprise was at first, was a drama, and in seccond place was a hardcore film.-
The plot is simple, based on Phaedra, the Melina Mercury -Anthony Perkins film, but un like other erotic porn film this was made with love, the photography, locations and score are excelent for the the kind of Eurotrash movie, and the performance are touching and sensitive, in dime aspecto superior to the Jules Dassin film the plot has a lot of melodrama, a kind of soap, but a good soap, not different than other europeans and latinamericans dramas with sex, just this time has hardcore sex. In fact the performance were so good, that I thought that this was at first a softporn or drama flick, that they latter added hardcore scenes on post production, like many films of the time. I don't know, I will search, I promise. The film is in french without subtitles, my french isn't that for that, so maybe I lost in translation in some aparts.-
The film started in the countrside in a rich family The Beauchamps. There is the father Raoul (André Chazel) who looks like his 50s in a wheel chair, his lovely seccond wife Françoise (Michèle Perello) in his mid-late 30s and his son in his early-mid 20s Christian (Richard Darbois). After a conversation, the wife and his step son play tennis, after that they have an oniric sequence of having sex in the tennis court. But this was just a fantasy, after that they return to their life, she with her husband, he with his girlfriend. Any way, after that both have fantasies of having sex between each other.
I guess she has at least 10 years marriage, and knows the boy, since he was a child, or in his earlier teens. She isn't old enough to be his mother, so I guess the age gap is between 10 to 16 years.- They continue to have fantasies to each other, until in a boat trip around a lake in the countryside, Christian confess his love, and have sex, after that they continue to have sex for a while, then both have some guilt, and they tried to forget the affair, But they can't and as a jelous lover he followed her to her appartment in the city, he thought she had a lover, but Françoise hasn't. So they have sex again. Then in the house is butler (Henri Czarniak ), who suspects, he tried to tell the husband, in every opportunity, despite the fact of being catched they continue to have sex, their passion and love is beyond them, destroy any sense of guilt and inhibition . Finally they have sex on the woman house in the city, a telephone call, by the butler and the husband, probably gotched them (my french isn't that good). Maybe he could leave and try to not recognized the affair, maybe both they can leave, but their passion is stronger and decide to continue having sex there. And then is where the movie end. It's a kind of open end, because the butler drive the car with the husband as passanger, the husband apparently know the affair (after all a husband knows his wife, as a father his son) from the begining, and try to not go ther, they fight, maybe they crash the car, maybe both dies. Maybe they continue to the house, and then the husband is forced by the butler to kill both, or the butler kills because he desire Françoise as well.
I guess the message, that at the end the passion and love, is above all. And both were madly consumed by passion and love, that they don't care any more about the consequences.-
So at the ends in romance in it's purist form, like I haven't seen in a long time, and it's unbeliavable that I find it in on a hardcore film. The direction is good, and most the director adn the actors had a very large career, doing any kind of films, not just this hardcore. So I guess that this is the trully happy ending, un like the Greek tragedy
The plot is simple, based on Phaedra, the Melina Mercury -Anthony Perkins film, but un like other erotic porn film this was made with love, the photography, locations and score are excelent for the the kind of Eurotrash movie, and the performance are touching and sensitive, in dime aspecto superior to the Jules Dassin film the plot has a lot of melodrama, a kind of soap, but a good soap, not different than other europeans and latinamericans dramas with sex, just this time has hardcore sex. In fact the performance were so good, that I thought that this was at first a softporn or drama flick, that they latter added hardcore scenes on post production, like many films of the time. I don't know, I will search, I promise. The film is in french without subtitles, my french isn't that for that, so maybe I lost in translation in some aparts.-
The film started in the countrside in a rich family The Beauchamps. There is the father Raoul (André Chazel) who looks like his 50s in a wheel chair, his lovely seccond wife Françoise (Michèle Perello) in his mid-late 30s and his son in his early-mid 20s Christian (Richard Darbois). After a conversation, the wife and his step son play tennis, after that they have an oniric sequence of having sex in the tennis court. But this was just a fantasy, after that they return to their life, she with her husband, he with his girlfriend. Any way, after that both have fantasies of having sex between each other.
I guess she has at least 10 years marriage, and knows the boy, since he was a child, or in his earlier teens. She isn't old enough to be his mother, so I guess the age gap is between 10 to 16 years.- They continue to have fantasies to each other, until in a boat trip around a lake in the countryside, Christian confess his love, and have sex, after that they continue to have sex for a while, then both have some guilt, and they tried to forget the affair, But they can't and as a jelous lover he followed her to her appartment in the city, he thought she had a lover, but Françoise hasn't. So they have sex again. Then in the house is butler (Henri Czarniak ), who suspects, he tried to tell the husband, in every opportunity, despite the fact of being catched they continue to have sex, their passion and love is beyond them, destroy any sense of guilt and inhibition . Finally they have sex on the woman house in the city, a telephone call, by the butler and the husband, probably gotched them (my french isn't that good). Maybe he could leave and try to not recognized the affair, maybe both they can leave, but their passion is stronger and decide to continue having sex there. And then is where the movie end. It's a kind of open end, because the butler drive the car with the husband as passanger, the husband apparently know the affair (after all a husband knows his wife, as a father his son) from the begining, and try to not go ther, they fight, maybe they crash the car, maybe both dies. Maybe they continue to the house, and then the husband is forced by the butler to kill both, or the butler kills because he desire Françoise as well.
I guess the message, that at the end the passion and love, is above all. And both were madly consumed by passion and love, that they don't care any more about the consequences.-
So at the ends in romance in it's purist form, like I haven't seen in a long time, and it's unbeliavable that I find it in on a hardcore film. The direction is good, and most the director adn the actors had a very large career, doing any kind of films, not just this hardcore. So I guess that this is the trully happy ending, un like the Greek tragedy
