Exoticalot
People are voting emotionally.
Dotsthavesp
I wanted to but couldn't!
Ezmae Chang
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Juana
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
Horst in Translation ([email protected])
"Leidenschaftliche Blümchen" or "Boarding School" is a West German German-language film from 1978, so this one will have its 40th anniversary soon. It stars the really young Nastassja Kinski in one of her earliest roles as a school girl with some naughty fantasies. But she is not the only one. Her female buddies are just as bad and they decide to launch a business, which allows the school boys to see the girls naked if they pay enough money and if they really pay enough money, even engage in sexual activities. So prostitution is a major plot reference here. but it is not displayed as something evil, rather as something that belongs to the girls' sexual awakenings for some bizarre reason. The film was directed by André Farwagi, a French filmmaker, and Paul Nicholas wrote the screenplay based on Laura Black's novel. I have not read the book, so I cannot say if it is as much garbage, but this film here surely is. The actors are all pretty bad and the way they talk about their business was supposed to seem innocent and inexperienced, but due to the lack of range, it just looks all very amateurish. Klaus Kinski's daughter does not stand out at all and as this is one of her most known German films, I cannot say I got curious about any of her other works. These 100 minutes were extremely underwhelming and are not better than most of the 1970's sex comedies from Germany, Austria and Switzerland with the major difference that this film here does take itself so seriously on many occasions that it feels pretty cringeworthy. You'd better stay away or don't say I haven't warned you.
Neil Welch
As a British teenager back in the 60s, it was hard work finding material to fuel your erotic fantasies - Britain was still fairly tightly buttoned up. However, as the 60s became more swinging, so the laces loosened, initially with the written word. Penguin books had kicked things off in the 50s with the DH Lawrence novel Lady Chatterly's Lover, of course. Gradually there was a move away from literary material which was sexually oriented (Lady Chatterly, A Cold Wind In August etc.) to books which were targeted towards erotic entertainment rather than serious literature. Passion Flower Hotel by Rosalind Erskine ( pseudonym for Roger Erskine) was a case in point. It was a saucy, lightly humorous novel about a group of boarding school girls who set themselves up as a rather tentative brothel for the benefit of the local boarding school boys (a different, neighbouring school). This, for a 60s adolescent lad who had not not joined the Permissive Society, was pretty spicy stuff. My copy became dog eared, and took to falling open at certain pages.I encountered this movie late one night on TV and it was well under way when I thought "Hello! This is Passion Flower Hotel!" Although the adaptation is distinctly European (the book is very English), the story is pretty much the same.Don't expect this film to be sexually lurid. There is some nudity, the plot is driven by sex, but there is an air of innocence about the girls' enterprise and also the movie itself. These were simpler times, and by being set even further back in time, the innocence is amplified. It is mildly erotic, pretty to look at, gently entertaining, and rather charming in its own understated manner.And, for me, it brings back very welcome memories of the book.
LibertadBGreen
I love this movie! I love it because it's such an excellent vehicle for Nastassja Kinski, Fabiana Udenio, and several other nubile young women, including Véronique Delbourg! Nastassja and Véronique would have been 19 at the time this movie was produced, Fabiana only 14, which may be why the two former appeared nude, but Fabiana did not.My favorite sequence in this movie was a striptease contest held in the attic of the boarding school. Nastassja's character, a student and the ring leader of the other girls who had decided to become prostitutes, hosted this event for some of the boys from an all male boarding school.Several of the girls performed stripteases during this competition. They employed a variety of gimmicks. One girl belly danced. Another performed a swan-like ballet. Fabiana stripped out of an alligator costume (but only down to a bikini) to the tune of "See Ya Later, Alligator!" My favorite, however, was performed by Véronique Delbourg, who did a dance with a banana skirt, similar to Josephine Baker's. She passed out some of these bananas, but not enough to appear bottomless!Nastassja did not compete, but she did treat one of the boys to a private, nude performance after the show. This is the most erotic footage of her I have ever seen!If you find Nastassja Kinski or Fabiana Udenio attractive, and would like to see them and other beautiful actresses at their sexiest, this is a "must see"!
mattymatt4ever
I would say I wasted my money purchasing this movie, but it was only $2.88. You get what you pay for. That's no lie. Of course, they place Natassja Kinski on the cover to lure you into checking it out. Well, she's the star and she is beautiful as always. But that's not saying anything at all. This is a low, low- (almost no-) budget comedy that will knock you out better than the best anasthetia money can buy. Even the nudity can't save it. The film even starts with a shot of a topless female. Besides, there isn't THAT much nudity (it nowhere near reaches the lengths of softcore porn) and it's SOOOOOO boring that nothing--and I mean NOTHING--can possibly save it. I would write a couple of paragraphs about how much I hate this movie, but I don't like to pick on extremely low-grade movies that are pretty much...supposed to be bad. This is hardly a movie; it's just a collection of poorly photographed images. Film should've been re-titled BORED-ING SCHOOL.My score: 2 (out of 10)