A reporter is hired to dig up dirt on a woman running for political office. He interviews a number of associates of the women, who each tell sleazy stories of the woman (shown in flashback) in various sexual situations.
Sounds like an easy excuse to show abundant nudity and sex, doesn't it? And yes, there is plenty of that on display here. But surprisingly, it's all handled with much more seriousness than you'd think. A couple of the sex scenes, for one thing, are not treated as fun, and really emphasize the great struggle the heroine went through during her life. The other situations she gets into may sound like the ingredients for camp or sleaze - marriage to a gay movie star, a lesbian relationship - but they are actually handled with some restraint. Even the characters are depicted as real people, talking the way people do in real life.
While the dialogue would never beat David Mamet, it still more than beats that found in your typical cheap sexploitation movie. There are a few individual lines that are witty or otherwise memorable. The acting by all the players is surprisingly good. While the direction overall isn't terribly special, it does do the job. There is one standout sequence I must admit and point out - the entire boxing ring sequence - that does deliver, well, a knockout punch.
The date given for this movie is wrong. I don't know exactly when it was made, but there are references to Watergate and "All The President's Men", indicating it was made several years after 1971. Though this mistake is understandable, since this is an unbelievably rare movie. It doesn't seem to have been released on video in North America, nor is it available on cable here. (I had to get a copy from England.) If somehow you get a chance to see it, grab it.
Sounds like an easy excuse to show abundant nudity and sex, doesn't it? And yes, there is plenty of that on display here. But surprisingly, it's all handled with much more seriousness than you'd think. A couple of the sex scenes, for one thing, are not treated as fun, and really emphasize the great struggle the heroine went through during her life. The other situations she gets into may sound like the ingredients for camp or sleaze - marriage to a gay movie star, a lesbian relationship - but they are actually handled with some restraint. Even the characters are depicted as real people, talking the way people do in real life.
While the dialogue would never beat David Mamet, it still more than beats that found in your typical cheap sexploitation movie. There are a few individual lines that are witty or otherwise memorable. The acting by all the players is surprisingly good. While the direction overall isn't terribly special, it does do the job. There is one standout sequence I must admit and point out - the entire boxing ring sequence - that does deliver, well, a knockout punch.
The date given for this movie is wrong. I don't know exactly when it was made, but there are references to Watergate and "All The President's Men", indicating it was made several years after 1971. Though this mistake is understandable, since this is an unbelievably rare movie. It doesn't seem to have been released on video in North America, nor is it available on cable here. (I had to get a copy from England.) If somehow you get a chance to see it, grab it.
