3/10
More Desires for Sex and Money
31 January 2011
Warning: Spoilers
This is a minor Eurosleaze hardcore spectacle concerning the misadventures of a group of young (late teens/early 20s) Swedish girls who take a holiday in Ibiza. They travel by boat, things getting off to a telling start when one of their number almost makes them miss the boat as she has been busy shagging her lift to the quay in a field (a goat looking on with interest). One of the number, a boyish blonde, assures the rest that she has their money and passports. On arrival in Ibiza, this blonde nearly misses the port as she is (we soon see why they are all friends) shagging a bloke in her cabin. She rushes ashore but sure enough she leaves their valuables on board. The girls meet an obliging black bisexual woman who lets them stay in her sea-view villa and pay their way on the Island by taking a variety of jobs (casino hostess, shop-assistant, go-go dancer), each of the girls invariably shagging the boss of the establishment they are working in. They men are, for the most part, old enough to be the girls' fathers.

That's pretty much it in terms of plot. There's no twists and turns, merely a parade of sexual vignettes, culminating in an orgy on board a small ship. The film could be said to be illustrative of a transitionary period in hardcore feature-length porn: gone is the character and plot development of the golden age, replaced by a series of casually-linked sex sequences; yet Sechs Schwedinnen auf Ibiza was photographed on film and released to cinemas. As videotape and home viewing became more prevalent, the plot lines mostly became minimal and disappeared, leaving only the heaving bodies.

It is hard to imagine how this played in the cinema. Director Gérard Loubeau films the exteriors beautifully, with a good eye for scenic prettiness, but rarely makes any interesting shot choices in the interiors (the exception being a sex scene which begins reflected in a mirrored table). The sex sequences are hardcore and admirers of the actresses Olinka Hardiman and Marianne Aubert will find much to admire here.

The film was released in 1986 in British cinemas as More Desires Within Young Girls. The film has nothing to do with the 1978 American film Desires Within Young Girls, except that both films posit those desires involve only making money and having lots of hot sex. All hardcore elements would have been cut from the UK theatrical release; it is impossible to imagine this was much of a night out at the pictures in that form.
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