Julia (1974)
6/10
"Good coffee with lots of cream."
5 August 2020
Warning: Spoilers
With a German cinema and cinema of the 70's viewing challenges taking place at the same time,I decided that I would combined them together. Having picked this title up years ago (!) thanks to being interested in the mixed reaction I read for it,I got set to at last meet Julia.

View on the film:

The first film she made after becoming famous from Emmanuelle (1974), Sylvia Kristel gives a raunchy turn as Andrea, who is given by Kristel a butter wouldn't melt in her mouth innocence, which is striped away when no preying eyes are in sight, whilst Ekkehardt Belle fidgets Pauli with a awkwardness when around the ladies.

Serving up the audience what they want with a up-skirt shot within the opening minutes (good lad!), director Sigi Rothemund & cinematographer Heinz Holscher brush the glossy sensual flicks of the era with animated German Comedy, with Rothermund gliding the camera from a eyeful of a naked fittie,to a fat man running round playing tennis.

In between thrusts to the kinky frolics and bubbly romance between pure Pauli and Julia becoming passionate,Rothemund takes a unexpected turn, by involving food in every set-piece, (such a stupid waste of good cakes) which whilst not likely to all tastes, does slide in as a visual metaphor to the Pauli's family indulging in kinky antics, as Pauli secretly goes with Julia for a side dish.
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