Product Description: Directed by Pasquale Festa-Campanile (Hitch Hike) and starring European sex goddess Catherine Spaak (The Cat o' Nine Tails, La Ronde, Hotel) and French star Jean-Louis Trintignant (A Man and a Woman, The Conformist, And God Created Woman), The Libertine is about a demure young widow named Mimi (Chatherine Spaak), who discovers that her husband had a secret apartment equipped to satisfy his unusual sexual desires. Upset that he had turned to others for sexual satisfaction, Mimi decides to use the apartment for herself.
A Husband Should Be His Wife's Most Exciting Lover A 1970's SEXPLORATION FILM INTO THE MADONNA/WHORE SYNDROME
The Libertine explores the adventures of a recently widowed young wife (Catherine Spaak) who finds out her deceased husband Franco kept an apartment where he explored his interest in sadism. In the apartment, Spaak finds evidence that she was nicknamed "the saint" and a book rating his sexual partners on areas such as "imagination, compliance, adventure, experience". Absent from the book is her own name. Admitting that she was bored with her husband's attempts to make love with her, Spaak sets out to become the sort of woman whose name would be in that book. Along the way to becoming a sexual experienced temptress she encounters "the madonna/whore syndrome"- the men who might have married her when she wasn't sexually satisfying herself are not interested in her when she is exploring her sexuality. In her adventures, Spaak explores bestiality with a beetle and sadism-declaring eventually that she doesn't like being hit and hates having her expensive seventies era clown pant suit ripped. Eventually she meets a level headed and sexy scientist type who declares that "a husband should be his wife's most exciting lover" while carrying Spaak around their home on his back so that she can sexually stimulate herself like Aristotle.
A 1970's era low budget film, The Libertine is full of sort-core sex scenes and poor editing. Some parts of the film are misssing, and some of the sex scenes are oddly cut, making it less of a sexy film than the title implies. In one scene, Spaak picks up a man on the street and they go to have sex in a car and you see the car-framed from several miles away-parked by a lake. No steamy details are illuminated. Suddenly Spaak is back by the curbside getting paid. That being said, in this day and age of plastic everything, it's actually refreshing to see actresses who pose before a camera au naturel. I actually think I'd forgotten what natural breasts on film look like until I saw this movie. There are some incredibly interesting hair styles which Spaak attempts to maintain for her sex scenes. The movie is labeled a French film, but Spaak's deceased husband was apparently Italian and most of the film seems shot in Italy. Still, the film is an interesting and charming exploration of female sexual liberation and one of the only films I've seen address the madonna/whore syndrome. Ultimately, a lot tamer and more interesting than the Story of O-a similar 70's style sexploration film.
Film d' epoque. A good cast and an interesting script have good possibilities to have as result a good film. You have to watch this film concidering that is a film of the 60s. Is not bad but we have seen J.L. Tredigniand in better films. The unrated version is supposed to be uncut...he , he, ..i don't think so!The version i have seen some 25 years ago in my neighbourhood's cinema was somehow more daring..
Entertaining , sexy 60's film This is a surprisingly entertaining movie. It is almost quaint. Catherine Spaak, one of the most beautiful actresses of the 1960's is at her most beautiful as a widow who discovers her late husnband had an apartment that he used for kinky sexual escapades. She then decides to use that apartment for similar purposes and to live a more carefree sexual lifestyle. Movie is full of typical 1960's touches, from the art direction to the music. This is not, though, an explicit sex movie or even one of those late night Cinemax flicks. This is a fine, sexy, very entertaining movie. The VHS version of this movie was missing several minutes of the more naughty scenes. Luckily they have been restored for the DVD version. The print quality of those scenes is not up to par, but it is still nice to see a complete version. The DVD also features some "Deleted Scenes" and some amazing 1960's trailers from the Audubon Collection. They are truly fun to watch.
BEAUTIFUL LADY THE STAR OF THIS MOVIE IS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL AND IF I FIND ANY MORE MOVIES WITH HER IN THEM, I WILL SURELY BUY THEM!!
Dissappointing I saw this movie when it first came out in 1969. I had fond memories of a movie that was sexually interesting and funny. However the video is of poor quality for the price. Also, the editing seems to have cut out substantial parts of the original. I would not recommend this video for purchase.
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