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 PLEASURES
OF A WOMAN (Retro-Seduction
Cinema) 1972/2003. Grindhouse erotica. Total disc time 140 minutes.
Not Rated, nudity, sexual situations. Brian, a wealthy, old bastard, dies
while having sex with his young girlfriend Martine (Uschi Digart).
Thinking she has inherited Brian’s cash, Martine is disturbed to realize
that only one person stands in the way of her fortune; Lynn (Lynn Harris),
Brian’s hot young niece with bad teeth. Wanting to destroy Lynn, Martine
seduces her hoping to corrupt the buck-toothed sweetie. However, little
does Martine know that Lynn is not as innocent as she looks. Together, the
two travel a path into the land of sex and drugs.
I am by no means an expert in the Grindhouse Cinema genre, but I
honestly have no problem writing that Pleasures of a Woman is one gem of a
Grindhouse flic. The movie, of course, is loaded with nudity and sex
(mostly softcore lesbian) with the two lead females looking good enough to
watch, but average enough to make things seem real. Not to be an
insensitive slob, but back when I was a fine young lad engaged in callous
talk with some other fine young lads, we would have referred to Lynn
Harris’ teeth as a “pecker wrecker.” Still, there was something
rather appealing about her. Director Nick Philips nicely throws in some
drug abuse and nutty hallucinations helping add some grittiness to this
already gritty flic. Get this, the previously written isn’t even the
best part about this movie, Lynn’s narration is. There is no dialog
between the characters, but none is needed as Lynn fills us in concerning
the complexities going tick tock in her head. I was going to lift many of
the great quotes spoken by Lynn, but instead I will just write that the
narration is priceless. The 2003 remake stars Julian Wells and Darian
Caine as the leads. Outside of Julian Wells (she’s a babe and quickly
becoming one of my favorite Seduction Cinema hotties. She kind of looks
like a sleazy version of Reese Witherspoon), the remake doesn’t do much
to impress the viewer after watching the original. DVD extras include; a
cool and funny interview with “42nd Street” Pete, trailers,
and even comes with a great color booklet. This is a good one if you’re
interested in Grindhouse. – Denis Sheehan
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