La villa (1975)

Director:

Alain Nauroy

Writer:

Michel Vocoret

Stars:

Valérie Boisgel, Yan Brian, Martine Grimaud

Cast

Credited cast:
Valérie Boisgel	...	Helene
Yan Brian
Martine Grimaud
Monique Vita
Richard Darbois
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
François Gharsi
Gilbert Labat
Charlie Schreiner	...	(as Charles Schreiner)

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

home invasion | rape | fellatio | sex | sixty nine | 

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Genres:

Adult

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Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

August 1976 (USA)

Also Known As:

Helena

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

73 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

User Reviews

Two porn films in one

Alain Nauroy, who also signed porn films using the anagram-style pseudonym "Lino Ayranu", brings style and an element of suspense to FEU AU VENTRE. What starts out as a carefree "couples" style XXX romance turns dark and nasty mid-way through the proceedings.

Lovely and well-built blonde Valerie Boisgel, who mainly had a straight acting career, not porn, stars as Helene, a woman who comes to work for playboy Yan Brian (a Jean Rochefort type) at his split level mansion in Nice. The attractive Riviera setting sets the stage for effective escapist porn in the early reels.

These two thesps previously co-starred in Max Pecas's YOUNG CASANOVA, and they make a good team here too. Fly in the ointment is a young girl staying with Yan, presumably his ward. When she sees Helene and Yan making love by the pool, the girl whips out a huge dildo to masturbate in the window.

The way it's shot, Nauroy might have been using a hardcore double for Boisgel to film the XXX inserts during her otherwise softcore sex scenes. Given her overall career arc that would make sense, and in fact her obvious acting skills raise this film a notch or two.

SPOILERS AHEAD:

This romantic idyll is interrupted by danger ahead: one night our duo falls accidentally into a hole or ditch and start making love when suddenly some creeps start throwing dirt on top of them, as if filling in a grave. They look like juvenile delinquents, flashing a gun and even lighting a fire surrounding the top of the pit.

The guys gang-rape Helene, and Yan doesn't save her, but does carry her home with him afterward. The thugs return and torture Helene in the bathtub and also attack the Yan's young ward. Kinkiness includes a guy attempting to defecate on Yan's chest, but this is not shown completed on screen.

It turns out that Yan is a bad guy after all -this house invasion and rape were all his doings, for which the gang gets paid in due course. A biker girl in the gang is also along for the ride, having a consensual lesbian scene with Yan's ward.

Film's climax is suitably kinky: Helene is strung up nude in bondage, and shaved all over -privates and head too, as an act of humiliation. Donning a blonde wig she drives away. Finale has her and Yan driving in separate cars down a scenic mountain road, while flash-cut highlights of their time together are inserted as a montage. Just as his car catches up with hers there's a freeze frame -will they be reuniting?

Well-lensed storyline porn, FEU AU VENTRE is a good example of what was being done in France (with some integrity and ambition) before porn merely became a product. I also enjoyed Nauroy's later film Africa LOVE, in which he put more emphasis on the sex than here.