Self-reflexive porn (about the making of porn) is an important area of the industry, but American filmmaker Paul Gerber in one of his Scandinavian entries MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER, ruins the chance to come up with something after establishing a workable premise. Result is an adequately sexy time-killer.
Marie Ekkore is attractive heroine Mette, whose cheesecake photographer boyfriend Soren gets a gig from her dad (who doesn't know about his offspring's relationship with Soren) to write and direct a different kind of porn film. The assignment is to write "something believable, about real life", a challenge in the face of the hokey nature of virtually all porn. Dad and his partner Jens have script approval.
Mette and Soren dive into the project, determined to make a go of it. She decides that they model the script on real, "ordinary" people, including her parents and Jens, so they spy on them and adapt their peccadilloes to the screenplay. Punchline is that daddy & Jens reject the script, finding it totally "unbelievable", not recognizing any of their own antics which we've just watched. At this point the director stupidly gives us a "highlights" montage and ends the film just as pointlessly as the porn he has been implicitly criticizing from the outset.
One big plus is that most of the cast, with the odd exception of Jens' sexy secretary Lone, is dubbed into English with thick Scandi accents, rather than the usual anonymous voices, retaining some of the flavor of the original. Director remains a mystery, revered for a couple of classic films like SCHOOL GIRL and LIZ, but hardly worthy of the transatlantic genius mantle achieved by Joe Sarno, who also balanced New York and Scandi projects effortlessly.
For the second time recently, I found in this film a demonstration of the truism regarding the erotic superiority of softcore to hardcore in its massage parlor scenes, where a handjob, fingering or merely oiling proves far more stimulating than the tedious "in & out" footage required by the XXX genre.
Marie Ekkore is attractive heroine Mette, whose cheesecake photographer boyfriend Soren gets a gig from her dad (who doesn't know about his offspring's relationship with Soren) to write and direct a different kind of porn film. The assignment is to write "something believable, about real life", a challenge in the face of the hokey nature of virtually all porn. Dad and his partner Jens have script approval.
Mette and Soren dive into the project, determined to make a go of it. She decides that they model the script on real, "ordinary" people, including her parents and Jens, so they spy on them and adapt their peccadilloes to the screenplay. Punchline is that daddy & Jens reject the script, finding it totally "unbelievable", not recognizing any of their own antics which we've just watched. At this point the director stupidly gives us a "highlights" montage and ends the film just as pointlessly as the porn he has been implicitly criticizing from the outset.
One big plus is that most of the cast, with the odd exception of Jens' sexy secretary Lone, is dubbed into English with thick Scandi accents, rather than the usual anonymous voices, retaining some of the flavor of the original. Director remains a mystery, revered for a couple of classic films like SCHOOL GIRL and LIZ, but hardly worthy of the transatlantic genius mantle achieved by Joe Sarno, who also balanced New York and Scandi projects effortlessly.
For the second time recently, I found in this film a demonstration of the truism regarding the erotic superiority of softcore to hardcore in its massage parlor scenes, where a handjob, fingering or merely oiling proves far more stimulating than the tedious "in & out" footage required by the XXX genre.