Two films starring Brigitte Lahaie
RAPE (aka Viol la grande peur - 1978) (English lang or subs)
FIEVRES NOCTURNES (French Language)
Plus an Interview with Brigitte Lahaie
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IMDB REVIEW:
Amongst the most exploitative movies ever
I don't know if I've ever watched a more exploitative movie than this. The premise behind it is simple. A newspaper editor wants to sell more newspapers using sex as a selling feature. More precisely, he wants to blow the lid off the hidden, silent crime of rape; to expose its ugliness to his newspapers readers.While researching the crimes for the paper we the viewer will see vignette after vignette of rape set to soft romantic music. All the women are smoking hot. The forced sex itself was unremarkable and the simulated sex left much to be desired. With the exception of perhaps the third last vignette, there is no justice meted out. When the women do go to the authorities, no one believes their tale.
It's a surprisingly easy viewing, but I can't help but wonder to the true purpose behind the movie. Although it constantly reinforces the notion that rape is unacceptable and that men are too blame, it also keeps telling us that women are in fact asking for it. Yes, each woman has her chance to say she wasn't seeking to be raped, but still, you'll leave feeling that the crew making the movie in fact were simply creating a movie to feature a series of rapes...but that isn't such a bad thing.
