With having discovered feature film "Adult" titles for the first time this year, (thanks to stunning titles such as Through The Looking Glass)I felt that with the last month of the year just about to arrive,that it would be a good to end 2013 on an excellent sounding,perverse note.
The plot:
Being desperate to help out their neighbour,as she recovers from an illness in a Switzerland hospital,young couple Paul and Gabrielle decide to look after her 17 year old daughter Felicia,by allowing Felicia to stay with them in their country house for 6 weeks.
Picking up Feclica from the airport,Gabrielle and Paul are sadden to find,that instead of meeting the upbeat and lively teenager that they had expected, Felicia is in fact down beat,and extremely cynical.With currently taking photos for a calender,Gabrielle decides to make Felicia model for her,in the hope that it will help to "free" Felicia spirit.Whilst finding the modelling itself to be annoyingly stupid,Felica finds herself becoming increasingly attracted towards Gabrielle,which leads to Felica to begin planning ways that she can insert perversions into Paul and Gabrielle relationship.
View on the film:
Whilst some of the more questionable moments in the movie would likely lead to a much different ending today, (with Felicia being arrested for being a sexual predator!) each of the cast members give tremendous performances,which help to make Paul,Gabrielle and Felica's fracturing relationships a joy to witness.
Showing Gabrielle and Paul to be a bickering "old" couple,Mary Mendum and Jean Roche each give terrific subtle performances,with the ravishing Mendum showing Gabrielle to be a free spirit who is oblivious to Felicia's dark,interior motives,whilst Roche shows Paul's love for Gabrielle gradually reach the suffice,as he beings to fear that Felicia is going to tear them apart.Spliced right in the middle of Paul and Gabrielle's relationship, the stunning Beatrice Harnois gives a wicked performance as Felicia,with Harnois allowing Felica's initially harden appearance to soften,and reveal a devilish smile of a snake,who is about to attack her prey.
Avoiding the easy opportunity of turning the movie into a sleaze fest,the screenplay by co-writer/ (along with Michele Ressi-who also edited the film)director Max Pecas, (whose dad Marc did second unit work for the title) instead roots itself in the drama of Gabrielle and Paul's crumbling relationship,which along with making the viewer actually care about the effect that Felica is having on their relationship,also gives the more intimate moments in the film a highly erotic charge.
For the films eye catching,stylised appearance,Pecas uses the couple's country house setting to cover the movie in warm greens,browns and yellows,which along with creating a mood of the house being placed right in the middle of the wilderness,also gives the more "Adult" moments in the title an extraordinary sensual atmosphere,as Pecas begins to reveal how perverse Felicia's 1001 perversions are.
The plot:
Being desperate to help out their neighbour,as she recovers from an illness in a Switzerland hospital,young couple Paul and Gabrielle decide to look after her 17 year old daughter Felicia,by allowing Felicia to stay with them in their country house for 6 weeks.
Picking up Feclica from the airport,Gabrielle and Paul are sadden to find,that instead of meeting the upbeat and lively teenager that they had expected, Felicia is in fact down beat,and extremely cynical.With currently taking photos for a calender,Gabrielle decides to make Felicia model for her,in the hope that it will help to "free" Felicia spirit.Whilst finding the modelling itself to be annoyingly stupid,Felica finds herself becoming increasingly attracted towards Gabrielle,which leads to Felica to begin planning ways that she can insert perversions into Paul and Gabrielle relationship.
View on the film:
Whilst some of the more questionable moments in the movie would likely lead to a much different ending today, (with Felicia being arrested for being a sexual predator!) each of the cast members give tremendous performances,which help to make Paul,Gabrielle and Felica's fracturing relationships a joy to witness.
Showing Gabrielle and Paul to be a bickering "old" couple,Mary Mendum and Jean Roche each give terrific subtle performances,with the ravishing Mendum showing Gabrielle to be a free spirit who is oblivious to Felicia's dark,interior motives,whilst Roche shows Paul's love for Gabrielle gradually reach the suffice,as he beings to fear that Felicia is going to tear them apart.Spliced right in the middle of Paul and Gabrielle's relationship, the stunning Beatrice Harnois gives a wicked performance as Felicia,with Harnois allowing Felica's initially harden appearance to soften,and reveal a devilish smile of a snake,who is about to attack her prey.
Avoiding the easy opportunity of turning the movie into a sleaze fest,the screenplay by co-writer/ (along with Michele Ressi-who also edited the film)director Max Pecas, (whose dad Marc did second unit work for the title) instead roots itself in the drama of Gabrielle and Paul's crumbling relationship,which along with making the viewer actually care about the effect that Felica is having on their relationship,also gives the more intimate moments in the film a highly erotic charge.
For the films eye catching,stylised appearance,Pecas uses the couple's country house setting to cover the movie in warm greens,browns and yellows,which along with creating a mood of the house being placed right in the middle of the wilderness,also gives the more "Adult" moments in the title an extraordinary sensual atmosphere,as Pecas begins to reveal how perverse Felicia's 1001 perversions are.