As
we enter the third millennium, we tend to believe that eroticism,
and its cinema in particular, was born in the late 60's. In order
to refute this confabulation, the Vintage Erotica collection has
decided to unveil the physical attributes that our grandfathers
exhibited with wealth and good-nature on their reels. After the
horrors of the First World War, a sultry madness takes hold of the
French society that no authority can stop. The clandestine cinema
is commercialized at the back of specialized booksellers and whorehouses
for very delighted customers, through short films. Costumed as priests
and nuns, ballet dancers, satyrs, sparrow, apes, telegraph operator,
in monk or in bellboy, never mind, everything is a pretext to describe
love affairs which crudeness and humor have nothing to envy to the
contemporary porn cinema...
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