Ann and Eve (1970)
Bizarro Swedish erotica with Marie Liljedahl
25 July 2008
It's a little hard to recommend this, especially to anyone expecting your typical softcore product (five minutes of exposition, followed by ten minutes of sex, rinse and repeat). This movie is pretty sexy, chiefly do to the presence of Swedish lolita Marie Lilljedahl (who could induce boners at a hundred yards even with all her clothes on). Keep in mind though she does little more than walk around topless in a pair of cotton panties--most of the sex is either highly stylized or occurs off-screen. For instance, at one point Liljedahl enjoys a nude lesbian rubdown from three women while a dwarf plays the piano(!) During this scene though the camera drifts way out of focus. Then the dwarf stops playing and goes over to join the party, at which point the scene cuts away entirely (leaving it to your sick mind to imagine what happens next).

The plot (as it were) is equally bizarro: an older Swedish woman and a younger Swedish woman (Liljedahl) have come to Greece on vacation. The older woman is a notorious feminist writer who has apparently committed a murder (literally or metaphorically--it's kind of hard to tell). The younger woman has just turned 18 and is about to marry her long-time sweetheart. The older woman encourages her to have a last fling, which she begrudgingly does, with a scruffy Greek sailor on a filthy trawler (how romantic!). After that she suddenly turns into a Scandinavian version of Emanuelle, sleeping with practically anyone (including, apparently, the dwarf). Of course, the director, who seems to regard himself as Fellini or Godard, goes off on all kind of weird tangents from the main plot--a wife and a mistress have a murderous spat over a husband, a voluptuous Greek singer (who kind of resembles Rosalba Neri) belts out several numbers (Liljedahl's character later has a lesbian fling with her--tragically, offscreen), and, apropos of nothing, an old German soldier suddenly tells the older woman a story about the final days of WWII(I think Liljedahl later sleeps with him too, but I'm not sure).

I don't know that I've made this movie sound too appealing, but it did hold my interest until the end strangely enough. If you want to see Liljedahl in something a little stronger, try Joe Sarno's "Seduction of Inga" (although keep in mind that, like her fellow Swede Christina Lindberg, Liljedahl never really did anything truly pornographic). Her best films though are probably Massimo Dallamano's "Dorian Gray" and Jesus Franco's "Eugenie". Also "Grimm's Fairy Tales for Adults", where she plays a perpetually topless Snow White with a very interesting method of milking a cow, is definitely worth seeing. As for this movie, well. . .
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