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4/10
Another older man goes off it
augustian1 October 2016
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This film is based on a story, by Guy de Maupassant, telling of a love gone cold. Florentine (Malu) believes that her husband Jake no longer loves her and so she seeks affection from secret affairs, both male and female. When she meets Dorothy she thinks she has found real love but unbeknownst to her, it is all a set-up. She is secretly being spied on by Jake. When Florentine discovers this, she realises that there is a way to win Jake back.

It seems the way of things in films that older men marry younger women and then find that they cannot do their husbandly duties. In this one, the husband can only get turned on by watching other men with his wife. Not only that, but it has got to be with lots of disco lighting. Quite what Guy De Maupassant would have made of that is a moot point. The sex scenes look rather tame considering that the director, Pasquale Fanetti has made stronger stuff. Perhaps there is a longer version out there. This UK DVD runs to only 80 minutes. This is not a film worth repeated viewing.
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4/10
Yet another passionate woman with an impotent husband.
scott-115730 September 2018
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This story has been told many times, and some are better than others. This one falls in the middle somewhere, not bad, but somehow not very good either. The Italian bombshell Malu plays the younger wife to an older impotent husband. She's almost constantly desperate for affection, it seems, and she plays the frustration pretty well, although as blatant as she is it seems to do very little to attract anyone. She wears her blouses open to the waist and dances like she has one hand on a pole, and yet only one man pays any attention to her. Around the house she wears silk robes, but not one has a belt to keep it closed. The only "man" really attracted to her is her preteen stepson, who is always spying on her and trying to catch a glimpse of more of her impressive body. The whole thing is a bit over-the-top, but amazingly soft and tame, and the little glimpses we see of Malu's rear and cleavage just aren't enough to make the overwrought drama more than a tease..
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