Susan Hemingway hooks up with a guy at a discoteque (GREAT disco scene!),has unwilling sex (Brigitte Lahaie joins in on the action) and is drugged and sold off to a "deluxe bordello" where a bunch of dirty, moaning girls are kept in a constant state of excitement by some sort of sex-gas that is pumped into their living quarters. This is film has almost non-stop softcore sex but is still interesting for a francophile due to the dark subject matter and claustrophobic, sweaty atmosphere. There is no happy sex in this film, only rape, perversion, sadism and unfulfillment (as usual in Franco's world). Very low budget film, even by Franco's standard, Franco does the best to cover up the absence of a budget, a descent crew and good locations with some interesting/eccentric camera work and angles. I liked it, but it's almost impossible to discuss in terms of "good" and "bad" and I wouldn't recommend to anybody who haven't been bitten by the Franco bug.

It begins with hippies and beatnicks dancing in a cheap 70's club. The generic is SPOKEN, something you have to hear, especially with the voice that speaks. Then we witness Brigitte Lahaie and her male friend do the "seduction dance" and they pick up a bearded guy and a young nymph. When they get out in the daylight - of course ! ever seen a Franco film where people go to bars at night ?? - young and sexy Brigitte steals the guy's car and her friend gets away with the young girl.

Now the rest of the movie is just a pure delirium. The young girl is sold by Lahaie & friend to a whorehouse warden and taken away on a big sexual ship. I'll tell you no more about the story, but you have to know that this movie contains the most INCREDIBLE dialogues I have ever heard, some inventive and psychedelic camera works, and Lahaie at her best. If you usually like Franco's work, you'll fall in love with this one.

I have the strong displeasure of owning the softcore version of this colorful gem, but if you hear about the porn version, make sure to tell me about it...

After finding her mesmerizing in the epic Education of the Baroness (1979-also reviewed),I looked for another title to complete my trio of Brigitte Lahaie skin flicks viewings.

Checking her IMDb page,I was thrilled to find that Lahaie had worked with legendary auteur Jess Franco, (or as the people on the old IMDb Horror board use to call him:Uncle Jess)which led to me getting set to see the pair in action.

View on the film:

Pulling Jenny into her net of sin,Brigitte Lahaie makes her short appearance count, with a sultry, tempting performance as Lorna. Completely caught up in the waves of seedy sex and lust at the brothel,Susan Hemingway actually does very well in retaining a sense of innocence with Jenny,that reverberates in an unplanned family reunion.

Left un-credited, the writers strip Jenny of all her dreams in the outside world with sex scenes that push her into being a plaything,that when un-threaded,cleverly links Jenny to the rest of Franco's film "universe."

Dashing the flick out in 6 days (!) leads to auteur Uncle Jess being at his most care-free, via Jess and cinematographer Alain Hardy poking at the steamy sex scenes with Jess's trademark zoom-in button bashing & whip-pans.

Gliding on the slick Jazz from regular collaborator Daniel White, Jess finds space in the limitations for artful asides,from a funny Disco intro,to fellow sex workers gliding over the body of Jenny like poisonous snakes.