“This is a bizarre and hilarious film: a fascinating chapter in the secret history of cinema, the belle époque, and of sexual politics. Originally entitled Polissons et Galipettes (”naughtinesses and tumbles”), it anthologises a dozen sex films, furtively made in France between 1905 and 1925, well before the Chatterley ban and the Beatles’ first LP. They were often filmed covertly using the stages and costumes of legitimate productions, and designed to be shown in brothels and at stag parties.
If you think these films are going to be like coy Edwardian postcards, or that screen sex was invented in the 1970s, think again. This is in-your-face hardcore porn with surprisingly high production values, complete with flabby tummies, mottled thighs and armpit hair, and given a tinkling piano soundtrack that goes into trilling glissando runs for the money shots.” MORE
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