The Sex of the Angels Bernard De Vries Movie Review
Picturesque but empty soft porn
lor_ 19 October 2010
Ugo Liberatore pioneered in the fine art of scenic, globe-hopping porn, with films visiting Bora Bora, Bali, the Pitcairn Islands, and even giving merry olde England an ethnographic slant in mayhap his best motion picture MAY Morning, about weird though fourth dimension-honored rituals at Oxford. THE Sex OF ANGELS is a subpar endeavour assault the rocky coast of Yugoslavia.
Three beautiful young girls are vacationing on a magnificent yacht (belonging to the daddy of 1 of them), along with a stud acquaintance they bring along for obvious reasons. Centerpiece of the motion-picture show is their experimenting rather disastrously with LSD, every bit the stud, listlessly played by Bernard De Vries, wakes upwards from a bad trip with a bullet hole mysteriously in his side.
From that point on the picture show dwindles away in unsatisfying way, perhaps a victim of the "hippy-dippy" era in which it was fabricated. The girls fail to meet properly to their friend'due south wound and all sympathy with the characters evaporates, long before the film mercifully concludes.
I watched a German-language version of this co-production, which is probably on a par with the Italian 1, since it was scripted past a meridian German language writer-producer Franz Seitz, who contributed to many archetype films including Volker Schlondorff'southward THE Tin DRUM and Max Schell's THE PEDESTRIAN. Unfortunately the action here is strictly pedestrian.
The beautiful stars take their tops off, making this briefly a marketable art flick in 1969 from United Artists' Lopert subsidiary, which at the time was playing off numerous Ingmar Bergman films during his Max/Liv era. I found Laura Troschel, as a token lesbian, the almost interesting of the iii, having seen both Rosemary Dexter and Doris Kunstmann previously in far better roles -latter memorable playing Eva Braun opposite Alec Guinness's Hitler.
In its best moments Sexual practice OF THE ANGELS captures a little bit of that rare "daylit horror" mood that in pic history has been nailed most successfully in Get out HER TO Heaven and Regal Noon. But mainly it is just Ugo doing his standard skin flick matter equally prettified equally could be, setting the phase for EMMANUELLE and endless Euro trash softcore sex films shot in exotic settings, of which I still think Hubert Frank's VANESSA was the pinnacle.
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More Yacht based-nonsense
In the tardily sixties, you couldn't go for a nice beach holiday anywhere on the Adriatic without having your nice sea view marred past the endless masts of yachts steered by skinny Euro babes in tiny bikinis. You'd be sitting there with your pint of Marriage Thousand beer, trying to take in the gentle wash of waves while a bunch of burnt out rich pseudo hippies squabbled almost 'turning on', 'making it' and 'murdering each other' while revving their engines. Your kids would be poking a jellyfish with a stick one minute then blindly staggering nearly trying to remove some German hunk's grundies that have blown onto their face up, rudely thrown from the stern of a ship.
The Sex of Angels features neither a great deal of sex and certainly no angels, but is another tale of why y'all probably shouldn't head off into the Adriatic with a complete stranger and a whole load of LSD. In that location'due south Nora (spoiled rich child), Nancy (virgin, won't finish going on about it, wants her 'first to be a negro', and Carla (lesbian, loves Nancy, not reciprocated) and Marco, who's technically kidnapped into being there for reasons I tin can't quite figure out. He's off to Venice with the girls!
Afterwards much dialogue and such similar, we do eventually get to the point where the quartet take LSD, which is when some sort of a plot develops too. You see, everyone wakes up the next day feeling a scrap rough, Marco has his face up painted blackness, Nora's having a bad trip and someone'south been shot in the breadbasket and needs medical attention. No ane can remember anything, only maybe that tape recorder they fix might help
And thus we accept our mystery, but strangely for a giallo nosotros don't get whatever particular twist. Things only play out equally they are for the remainder of the moving-picture show, which is kind of refreshing equally we got people dealing with the aftermath of an nasty even in their own way. Just like the other 2 films set up on Yachts I've watched recently (Interrabang and Superlative Awareness) the movie looks great and the music is awesome too, with an added bonus of an inventive credits sequence.
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Rather unsettling and very 1968.
Director, Ugo Liberatore'south first film of only one-half a dozen or so and I accept been meaning to lookout his 1970 May Morning but its about bullying at oxford and I've been putting information technology off. This, nonetheless, is very much 1968 and has been apace slipped into my 'Acid Erotica' listing. Not that in that location is much peel on display here. The girls seem almost paranoid about revealing anything and are very careful how they slip their bikinis off and on. This is partly because the story seems to accept them less than worldly and information technology seems very odd that whilst we take an LSD trip depicted (well, set up and the consequences thereof depicted) the girls do express existent anxiety regarding loss of virginity. Almost the entire film takes place upon Daddy's yacht and has been mentioned past another, is reminiscent of Top Awareness and Interrabang, two superior films. Pleasant enough and whether the girls were told to human activity and look at each other then strangely or thats just the fashion they are, I don't know only it is rather unsettling at times.
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