Ars Amandi - Die Kunst der Liebe (1. Walerian Borowczyk has established an unenviable niche for himself in film history by applying the creativity of an avant- garde artist to the mundane world of sex movies. ARS AMANDI is one of his most pretentious and least successful efforts (so it's no surprise that I'm the first to waste my breath reviewing it on IMDb).
Film festival habitu. And so Borowczyk, like several other top- notch international talents on the festival circuit/merry- go- round like Miklos Jancso, Nagisa Oshima, Marco Bellocchio, Catherine Breillat and even a wannabe like Michael Winterbottom, get mucho attention and even a few hard- earned bucks when they take a dip (or sometimes wallow) in explicit sexual content. This very poorly made sort- of movie based on the poetry of Ovid is truly a chore to watch, as Borowczyk's beautiful imagery and palpable eroticism from earlier works like LA BETE and IMMORAL TALES have been replaced by what plays like out- takes from some misguided Jancso historical/political/porn co- production. I will try to impart some of the flavor of what WB has failed to coalesce into a coherent whole, but you have to sit through this baby (preferably trapped in a real- life movie theater) to properly appreciate its ineptness. SPOILERS ALERT: BIggest problem is Borowcyzk's use of a hoary framing device which is guaranteed to annoy the viewer. After nearly an hour and a half of being trapped in Rome 8 A. D. Other principal players include the wonderful Milena Vukotic, embarrassing as a neighbor who also has to suffer through simulated sex scenes, another failed thesp, the beautiful Simonetta Stefanelli (one- shot success in THE GODFATHER PART 2) as a pregnant neighbor, Mireille Pame, the black servant who preys to the god Priapus (definitely one of WB's favorite deities) and a cockatoo named Telefo. Since Telefo can talk he has been designated to guard (or fink on) Pierro's fidelity by a not- so- brainy Placido in what passes for WB's screenplay. Scenes are a hodge- podge of clumsily directed and painfully low- budget horsing around with precious little of the promised sex footage. True, Pierro either delivers a private parts closeup (or a double does) for nostalgia buffs of the bushy early '7. WB has two very fake scenes lamely depicting (or at least alluding visually to) his favorite topic of woman/beast relations, quite a come- down from his fabulous work in this under- tilled genre with LA BETE. I left out Massimo Girotti, whose achievements in Italian cinema are crucial, from early Visconti to prime Bertolucci. He pontificates as Ovid giving amazing misogynistic lectures on - - you guessed it, the Art of Love, until Placido is angry enough at Pierro to have his soldiers arrest him and all the ladies who follow his teachings. Entire film has one quality image: Pierro in her glass bath framed by fish in their adjoining tank. But WB saves tons of ridiculous exposition for the Land Rover scenes, even resorting to a handy newspaper found by Placido (a priest rather than soldier in the modern. Entre 1969 e 1972 doze pessoas estiveram na Lua - nenhuma mulher. Chat with So Mulher, 41 today. From Salvador, Brazil. Start talking to him totally free at Badoo. No panorama da arte do s. Entre tantos artistas de rotina bo 1 vez; 2 vezes; 3 vezes; 4 vezes; 5 vezes; Perdi a conta; Quero Ver. Justina Cima foi a fundadora, em 1983, do Movimento de Mulheres Agricultoras em Santa Catarina.
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