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.
5 Reviews
Oh Jess
BandSAboutMovies10 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Jenny (Susan Hemingway, whose entire acting career consists of being in Jess Franco's Voces de muerte, Erotic Symphony, Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties, Elles font tout, Women in Cellblock 9 and Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun) is the virginal daughter of a prominent industrialist.
Tom (Didier Aubriot) and Lorna (Brigitte Lahaie, a woman that Jean Rollin described as perfect; she's in so many films but let's go with Faceless and Fascination) kidnap her and sell her into white slavery, but once they learn what she's really worth, they steal her back and ransom her to her father.
Stephen Thrower says that this movie is Jess realizing just how boring making sex on film is and feeling trapped. How strange and sad is it that he'd have nearly thirty more years to go and that this can be a high point against where he'd go in the years that follow?
The Jess Franco Cinematic Universe is a proven fact. Here, we can see an aphrodisiac gas that traps women in sexual servitude, which also happens in Shining Sex and Blue Rita. It's the feeling that that gas gives that leads to the title of this film, which is either I'm Burning Everywhere or Burning Up Inside.
The second moment of the JFCU is when Al Pereira shows up, played by Jean Ferrère.
This is one dark and grimy film, a movie that feels like the scummiest porn you've ever seen and yet doesn't show anything explicit. It just feels rough, it feels wrong, it feels greasy and slimy and gross. Then again, any excuse to spend time with Lahaie is worth it, right? And I say all of the above with admiration because how else would I have watched 69% of all Jess Franco movies by now?
Tom (Didier Aubriot) and Lorna (Brigitte Lahaie, a woman that Jean Rollin described as perfect; she's in so many films but let's go with Faceless and Fascination) kidnap her and sell her into white slavery, but once they learn what she's really worth, they steal her back and ransom her to her father.
Stephen Thrower says that this movie is Jess realizing just how boring making sex on film is and feeling trapped. How strange and sad is it that he'd have nearly thirty more years to go and that this can be a high point against where he'd go in the years that follow?
The Jess Franco Cinematic Universe is a proven fact. Here, we can see an aphrodisiac gas that traps women in sexual servitude, which also happens in Shining Sex and Blue Rita. It's the feeling that that gas gives that leads to the title of this film, which is either I'm Burning Everywhere or Burning Up Inside.
The second moment of the JFCU is when Al Pereira shows up, played by Jean Ferrère.
This is one dark and grimy film, a movie that feels like the scummiest porn you've ever seen and yet doesn't show anything explicit. It just feels rough, it feels wrong, it feels greasy and slimy and gross. Then again, any excuse to spend time with Lahaie is worth it, right? And I say all of the above with admiration because how else would I have watched 69% of all Jess Franco movies by now?
The best softcore comedy of 79 !
prohibited-name-11424 September 1999
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...
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...
Lesser Franco
Michael_Elliott10 March 2008
Je Brule de Partout (1979)
* 1/2 (out of 4)
Wacked out Jess Franco film, which he shot in six days and it's obvious he didn't spend an hour on a script. A young woman (Susan Hemmingway) is kidnapped and forced to work in an orgy show but it turns out her daddy own the slave ring. It's clear this was a film Franco didn't have any money to make so he pretty much filmed anything and that anything is basically couples rolling around on the floor naked. Hemmingway is easy on the eyes as usual and Brigitte Lahaie, who went on to be Jean Rollin's lead actress, is also hot. Daniel White's brilliant jazz score keeps things going better than they should.
* 1/2 (out of 4)
Wacked out Jess Franco film, which he shot in six days and it's obvious he didn't spend an hour on a script. A young woman (Susan Hemmingway) is kidnapped and forced to work in an orgy show but it turns out her daddy own the slave ring. It's clear this was a film Franco didn't have any money to make so he pretty much filmed anything and that anything is basically couples rolling around on the floor naked. Hemmingway is easy on the eyes as usual and Brigitte Lahaie, who went on to be Jean Rollin's lead actress, is also hot. Daniel White's brilliant jazz score keeps things going better than they should.
Uncle Jess & Brigitte.
morrison-dylan-fan29 April 2018
Warning: Spoilers
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.
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.
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