Erotic Diary Of A Lumberjack/My Body
Burns/Truck Stop (French
Erotica/MVD DVD)
Picture:
C Sound: C Extras: C Films: C
If you
have never heard of Jean-Marie Pallardy, the French director of erotic sex
comedies, there is a reason. He is not that
good and neither are his films. Erotic Diary Of A Lumberjack (1974), My Body Burns (1972, his debut as a
director) and Truck Stop (1975) are
not so funny or sexy films whose only claim to fame is that they come from the
golden period of erotica and these are only so explicit. Then you get only somewhat attractive women
with surprisingly unattractive men which leads the view to ask, why would these
people ever think of having sex?
Burns is about a respectable man who
gets married to hide how he loves group sex and then lesbianism (read thought
police lesbianism for straight men) becomes part of the plot and the film does
not know where it wants to go with its thin story. Diary
is about a successful college teacher who gets away to a nearby countryside and
finds sex all over the park and becomes a pimp!
Not as amusing as it sounds. That
leaves Stop, where usually ugly
truckers find women who want to have sex.
And to
think he was an actor first. The films
are curios at best and maybe someone will enjoy them as a joke, but I was
surprised how bad they were. Not quite
all out XXX, even two of them (Diary
and Stop) listed as “Unrated
Editions” on the covers. Except for
completists, skip them.
The
letterboxed 1.66 X 1 image on Diary
and Body, plus letterboxed 2.35 X 1
image on Stop all have aged print
issues, some print damage, are too soft beyond any stylizing and color can be
an issue as well. The Dolby Digital
English dub 2.0 Mono is also weak and a few generations down, even though you
expect trouble with dubs. Extras are the
same on all three discs, including trailers for five of Pallardy’s films
including this one, stills and an hour-long “erotic Journal” interview
piece. Diary has even more trailers.
- Nicholas Sheffo
