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The Libertine
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by FIRST RUN FEATURES
Sales Rank: 82677
Price: $26.99
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Directed by Pasquale Festa-Campanile (Hitch Hike) and starring European sex goddess Catherine Spaak (The Cat o' Nine Tails, La Ronde, Hotel) and French star Jean-Louis Trintignant (A Man and a Woman, The Conformist, And God Created Woman), The Libertine is about a demure young widow named Mimi (Chatherine Spaak), who discovers that her husband had a secret apartment equipped to satisfy his unusual sexual desires. Upset that he had turned to others for sexual satisfaction, Mimi decides to use the apartment for herself.
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A 1970's SEXPLORATION FILM INTO THE MADONNA/WHORE SYNDROME
The Libertine explores the adventures of a recently widowed young wife (Catherine Spaak) who finds out her deceased husband Franco kept an apartment where he explored his interest in sadism. In the apartment, Spaak finds evidence that she was nicknamed "the saint" and a book rating his sexual partners on areas such as "imagination, compliance, adventure, experience". Absent from the book is her own name. Admitting that she was bored with her husband's attempts to make love with her, Spaak sets out to become the sort of woman whose name would be in that book. Along the way to becoming a sexual experienced temptress she encounters "the madonna/whore syndrome"- the men who might have married her when she wasn't sexually satisfying herself are not interested in her when she is exploring her sexuality. In her adventures, Spaak explores bestiality with a beetle and sadism-declaring eventually that she doesn't like being hit and hates having her expensive seventies era clown pant suit ripped. Eventually she meets a level headed and sexy scientist type who declares that "a husband should be his wife's most exciting lover" while carrying Spaak around their home on his back so that she can sexually stimulate herself like Aristotle.
A 1970's era low budget film, The Libertine is full of sort-core sex scenes and poor editing. Some parts of the film are misssing, and some of the sex scenes are oddly cut, making it less of a sexy film than the title implies. In one scene, Spaak picks up a man on the street and they go to have sex in a car and you see the car-framed from several miles away-parked by a lake. No steamy details are illuminated. Suddenly Spaak is back by the curbside getting paid. That being said, in this day and age of plastic everything, it's actually refreshing to see actresses who pose before a camera au naturel. I actually think I'd forgotten what natural breasts on film look like until I saw this movie. There are some incredibly interesting hair styles which Spaak attempts to maintain for her sex scenes. The movie is labeled a French film, but Spaak's deceased husband was apparently Italian and most of the film seems shot in Italy. Still, the film is an interesting and charming exploration of female sexual liberation and one of the only films I've seen address the madonna/whore syndrome. Ultimately, a lot tamer and more interesting than the Story of O, The Story of O-a similar 70's style sexploration film.
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