A featherweight 1982 US
film. The story can be summarized as 'two pretty young things (m/f), one of which played by
Daryl Hannah, meet an even prettier young thing (f),
Valérie Quennessen
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| Valérie Quennessen |
who sadly died at 31, and start a 'ménage à trois'
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| 2/3 of the ménage à trois |
on a beautiful Greek island (apparently
Santorini) which is also full of beautiful young things having a good time.
The dialogues are toe-curling with an occasional French sentence thrown in for added intellectual weight. On the other hand, the film is so over the top in its silliness that it becomes charming. And Santorini is beautiful as well.
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| Santorini |
Amusing.
☆☆
It's a little deeper than that, in that it portrays fairly accurately the sexual angst of those just entering into a relationship and discovering that they have sexual urges toward others! It's realistic in that regard, even though the setting (exotic Greek island full of frequently naked people) is not congruent with reality.
ReplyDeleteBut indeed all are quite attractive, the acting is not all that bad, and young people's dialogue is not always up to literary standards--that's realistic too!
But it is Valerie Quennessen's eyes that make this movie watchable way more than once. Once you see her eyes, it is impossible not to be in love. Her intelligence and her humanity blaze forth, and it is a surpassing sadness that this was one of her few movies and her last appearance. She retired to raise her children and only a few years later died in an automobile accident in France.