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Pulse Video is a France based, genre film focused boutique label which specializes in creating ultimate home video releases of cult and X rated films. Vinegar Syndrome’s sister company, OCN Distribution, is excited to help bring their extra features loaded editions across the Atlantic!
Former model Jean-Marie Pallardy was one of the more unlikely figures to forge a career directing (and starring) in French erotic films and his genre-defying efforts gave birth to a series of inexplicable and unforgettable vanity projects. Pulse Video presents two of Pallardy’s earliest films, including his feature debut, both newly scanned and restored from their original negatives and presented in their completely uncensored versions.
L’Insatisfaite / Full Time Females (1972) A rich, elderly man attempts to assault his young nurse. As she escapes, she is murdered by a mystery assailant who stages the death to look like an accident. Believing himself responsible, the man attempts to cover up the crime and, with the help of his future son-in-law, searches for someone to replace her. They find the perfect candidate in Patricia, a Parisian prostitute whose face is disfigured due to an acid attack, coaxing her into undergoing cosmetic surgery and assuming the face of the dead woman. But things don’t go as planned. In his very first feature film, Pallardy offers a taste of everything that would soon define his bizarre approach to filmmaking with a cockeyed blend of eroticism, romance, family drama, and plenty of strangely staged action set pieces.
L’Amour aux trousses / Hot Acts of Love (1974) Francis, heir to an industrial empire, is traumatized by his mother’s suicide and suffers from anxiety attacks. After his brother is killed by an unseen assassin, Francis’ paranoia reaches a fever pitch. Encouraged by his aunt to rest at the family's Corsican estate, increasingly strange events begin to occur around him. Francis’ behavior then turns incredibly erratic, as someone close to him strives to drive him mad. In his fourth film, Pallardy refines his style creating an elegant erotic thriller with a cast including Dutch actress Willeke van Ammelrooy (then Pallardy's partner), the acclaimed Corinne Marchand (Agnès Varda’s Cléo de 5 à 7), a leading role for fellow filmmaker Michel Lemoine (Seven Women For Satan), and Pallardy himself in a supporting performance as a sleazy pornographer.
directed by: Jean-Marie Pallardy
starring: Willeke van Ammelrooy, Corinne Marchand, Michel Lemoine, Jean-Marie Pallardy
1972, 1974 / 191 min (combined) / 1.66:1 / French Mono
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Overall rating: 4.5555553 / 5 from 9 reviews.
Review topics: ["feature","drama","bill","content"].
"L’Insatisfaite and L’Amour aux trousses make for a delightfully obscure double feature loaded with vintage French exploitation charm. Sleazy, stylish, and wonderfully rough around the edges, it’s exactly the kind of deep-cut Eurocult pairing that makes boutique releases so much fun."
"Pulse can be hit or miss for me and this double feature is kind of a great example of that. The first movie is totally fine but the second is miles ahead of it."
"Another great double bill. Must buy."
"Two thrillers with plentiful nudity and some familiar faces if you've watched Franco's French movies. These are a bit like those, but with cameras that stay in focus."
"Very well made French dramas, quite strong sexual content for 1972/74. More of these from the 80s and 90s please."
"All about it"
"Interesting flick"
"Delightfully French"
"Softcore, just FYI."
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