Also Known As
Body Love (USA release 1981)
Kärleksinfernot
Årets frækkeste pornomodel (Denmark)
AAA offresi… Veronique quella porno diva (Italy)
On the day of her 18th birthday, wealthy Martine (“Lolita Da Nova”, actually popular French singer and member of Les Rita Mitsouko Catherine Ringer) is instructed by her father the Baron (lanky Jean-Gérard Sorlin, also in Jean-Claude Roy’s LANGUE DE VELOURS) that she will be deflowered at an orgy later that day. Oh, those wacky blue bloods ! While she has only known physical love with her own gender (cue live-in maid and popular soft core starlet Gilda Arancio from Jean-Marie Pallardy’s silly REGLEMENTS DE FEMMES OQ CORRAL, making a rare explicit appearance), Martine’s dad and step mom (striking amazon Gwenda Farnel from Claude Mulot’s SEXE QUI PARLE 2) while away their idle existence playing kinky sex games. This provides a scorching semi-rape scenario (complete with lots of strange symbolism) with the wanton Baroness tag-teamed by working class ruffians Louison Boutin (one of the loutish boyfriends from Mulot’s SUPREMES JOUISSANCES) and Benoît Archenoult (billed as “Raymond Ximay” and best known for his appearances in Jean-François Davy’s prurient documentaries EXHIBITION and LES PORNOCRATES), a sequence Braun would reference in his first American film with Veronica Hart thoroughly mauled by Roy Stuart and Dave Ruby, as my estimable Internet buddy Casey Scott a Ruby groupie, if ever there was one so helpfully pointed out to me.
Intrepid reporter Jacques Gateau, a familiar face to anyone versed in French fornication films, is drawn into the family’s decadent little universe when Martine allows him to partake of the charms of the obedient slave girl (one shot wonder Gemma Giménez) she keeps in a trailer on the premises in another highlight of teasingly escalating eroticism. With each scene a perfectly realized tableau in its own right, the group climax can’t help but feel, well, just a tad anti-climactic ! Kicking off with a bit of hokey transcendental meditation, a sign of the times which will surely amuse other old-timers such as myself, it does offer glimpses of obscure starlets like dirty blond Micky Love (the devious daughter in law from Gérard Kikoïne’s haunting ENTRECHATTES) and matronly Cristel Lauris (who played Ringer’s pimping mom in Claude Bernard-Aubert’s unsettling SOUMISSION) along with notoriously bisexual Carmelo Petix as the butler and the ultimate elderly roué Tony Morena from Mulot’s enjoyable PETITES ECOLIERES. Group gropes are notoriously hard to get right, definitively putting to rest the old adage that bigger equals better, and Braun did them better than most, never more so than with SENSATIONS’ unforgettable final scene which made perfect sense within the confines of that film’s narrative, but it’s nearly impossible to sustain heat with a crowd vying for attention.
Directed by
Lasse Braun
Writing credits
Lasse Braun
Minutes
81
Actresses
Chantal Virapin as Chantal Rhodes, -= Plays =- A Guest
Cristel Lauris as Christine Louis, -= Plays =- A Guest [BJOnly]
Evelyne Manta as Frederique Souchier (Fred McDonald?)
Gilda Arancio as Gilda Jacobs, -= Plays =- Gilda [BJOnly]
Gwenda Farnel as Glenda Farrel, -= Plays =- Glenda, wife of the Baron and stepmother of Martine [Anal]
Catherine Ringer as Lolita da Nova, -= Plays =- Martine
Louis Mayer (might be a female, Louise Maier) -= Plays =- A Guest
Micky Love as Michèle d’Agro, -= Plays =- A Guest
Gemma Giménez as Roberta Jones, -= Plays =- Martine’s sex slave
Actors
Bent Rohweder
Carlo Manuguerra, as Carlos Manfield, -= Plays =- A Guest
Carmelo Petix -= Plays =- The butler (possibly credited as Carmen Royale playing the Maid)
Jean-Gérard Sorlin, as Gene Sorlin, -= Plays =- The Baron
Hans Sonntag -= Plays =- A Guest
Henri Treadeau
Henry de Mott -= Plays =- A Guest
Jacques Gateau, as Jack Gatteau, -= Plays =- The reporter
Louison Boutin, as Lou Boutton, -= Plays =- Bill
Mike Lennart -= Plays =- A Guest
Raymond Ximay, as Raymond Williams, -= Plays =- Ben
Tony Morena -= Plays =- The Uncle
Scene Breakdowns
Scene 1. Gwenda Farnel, Louison Boutin, Raymond Xirnay
Scene 2. Gilda Arancio, Catherine Ringer
Scene 3. Gemma Gimenez, Jacques Gatteau
Scene 4. Chantal Virapin, Cristel Lauris, Evelyne Manta, Gilda Arancio, Girls, Gwenda Farnel, Catherine Ringer, Micky Love, Gemma Gimenez, Bent Rohweder, Carmelo Petix, Jean Gerard Sorlin, Guys, Henri Treadeau, Jacques Gatteau, Tony Morena
Produced by
Manfred Metz – producer
Original Music by
Klaus Schulze