Claude et Greta (1970)

User Rating:

4.7/10   

Director:

Max Pécas

Writers:

Max Pécas (adaptation)
Michèle Ressi (adaptation)

Release Date:

25 March 1970 (France)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

A Motion Picture Deviation

Plot:

Greta, a Swedish student comes to Paris with a view to making it there. But comely and friendly as she is...

Plot Keywords:

Lesbian | Paris | Lesbianism | Explicit Sex | Female Nudity

Cast

Nicole Debonne	...	Claude Jibert
Astrid Frank	...	Greta
Yves Vincent	...	Mathias Decas
Frederick Sakiss	...	Jean
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bruno Balp	...	Le père
Kim Camba
Michel Charrel
Karine Marceau
Richard Saint-Bris		(as Saint-Bris)
Michel Vocoret

Also Known As:

Any Time Anywhere (UK)
Her and She and Him (USA)
Les liaisons particulières (France) (working title)

Runtime:

88 min | France:75 min

Country:

France

Language:

French | English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Spain:18 | France:-18 | USA:Not Rated | France:-16 (re-rating)

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company:

Les Films du Griffon

pass on this film

I was at a video rental shop that specializes in foreign and hard to find films. This one was under the erotica section with all the other 60s and 70s sex films of that era. I found the cover to be intriguing and the brief out-line of the story interesting enough that I wound up renting it. What a mistake that was. This movie is beyond bad. Worse yet, the entire film is dubbed. The story revolves around Greta, a young Swedish girl who comes to Paris in hopes of stardom and a new life. She has only her beauty and guitar as she becomes entangled in a series of un-wanted sexual advances. She eventually winds up living with and having a relationship with an older, woman, Claude who lusts after her. The rest of the films depicts Greta wanting to leave the clutches of this woman who, in a short period of time becomes possessive of her. Greta later meets up with and becomes involved with Jean, a painter's assistant who also happen to be in a torrid gay love affair. I found there wasn't enough character development and that the gay and lesbian characters in the film were portrayed as mentally un-balanced, obsessive and just down right crazy. Their erratic behaviour and the lengths that these two characters went through ie. conspiracy to murder in order to prevent Greta and Jean from being together. If anything, I felt no empathy for Jean or Greta who throughout this film behaved like a couple of love-sick, innocent teenagers who could do no wrong. A waste of time.