| Laura Gemser, Marpessa Dawn, Hiroshi
Mikami , Takeshi Wakamatsu, Juzo Itami
Three short films are gathered together in Collections Privées.
The first is L'Ile Aux Sirenes (Island of the Sirens), directed
by Just Jaeckin. In the story, a wealthy lout who is out yachting
is washed overboard and winds up on an island where his sexual whims
are catered to by four beautiful women. He is having a truly paradisiacal
time until he discovers what they really relish about him. The second
is Le Labyrinthe d'Herbes, directed by Shuji Terayama. The prostitute
mother of the young man in this story used to sing him to sleep
as an infant and toddler with a certain song. Now that he is approaching
sexual maturity, he is obsessed by the need to find out what the
words were to her song. The last film included is L'Armoire, directed
by Walerian Borowczyk. In it, a Folies-Bergère dancer rents herself
out to a wealthy and jaded Parisian who is shocked to discover where
she has hidden her child in order to accommodate his sexual pleasure. |