Streets of Paris (1969) User Reviews

An enjoyable piece of blithely sloppy 70's soft-core sleaze

[Woodyanders · 8/10 · 30 November 2009]

Naive virginal hippie chick Roxanne Miller (some seriously cute brunette) visits Paris, France and has various bawdy sexual misadventures in the city of love. That's basically it for the wafer-thin excuse of a plot; the rest of this flick is nothing but a steady series of reasonably hot and arousing simulated soft-core sex scenes: jaded hooker Danielle does the dirty deed with a sleazy married guy, the married guy's shrewish, but enticing wife (voluptuous knockout Maxine DeVille France) seduces the hooker's slimy pimp, and Roxanne not only has a sizzling Sapphic encounter with an aggressive lesbian American tourist (the steamiest set piece in the whole movie), but also goes all the way with a man for the first time. Technically, this baby's an absolute mess: the crude cinematography, crummy studio backlot (gotta love the primitive drawing of the Eiffel Tower!), glaring absence of music, slipshod editing, disjointed meandering story, sluggish pacing, and, most of all, the laughably lousy acting by the lame no-name cast all leave a good deal to be desired. Fortunately, there's an abundant amount of both male and female nudity and the ladies are all quite attractive (the female lead in particular is absolutely adorable). Moreover, this short and snappy 47 minute outing has a certain endearingly ramshackle low-rent charm that's impossible to dislike. A perfectly acceptable and entertaining grindhouse diversion.