Flossie

I have this on a drive-in compilation, and was expecting some Erwin C. Dietrich-level smut (both Swedish-related). What I got was exactly one hair short of full-blown porn. As in, you can tell when people are actually having sex, minus any graphic close-ups or finishes.

I'll say what I actually liked first. There are plenty of reasons I feel the Golden Age of porn is the best. Flossie exemplifies some strong characteristics found in a lot of 70's plot-driven, erotic X-rated films. First of all, this movie has an overarching story, and it's a good premise. Second, the fantasies (er, mostly told in flashback) are very thoughtful. My favorite 70's adult films (usually) have a great way of incorporating the sex into the story and plot line. This movie is wonderful in these respects.

Alright, Jack (Jack Frank) is one of the three main characters in this film. Why? All I can figure is he's got a pretty face and a big D. It sure as hell ain't his personality or his passion. This actor and character literally cripples what's good about this film.

The connection Jack has with Eva and Flossie is ultimately explained, but what preceded had me constantly asking Why?! Jack has exactly zero charisma, and looks stone-faced, no matter the situation. Flossie FALLS IN LOVE with the dullard minutes after they meet. Even after exuding the personality of a rotten tree stump. He gets some blowskis from Flossie, and puts both hands behind his head like he's a sultan entertaining his harem. Stone-face. Somehow, in another galaxy, he gets into a four-way with three female strangers from a limo. Apparently just another day at the office. I think he goes Oh! When the ladies remove his blindfold to reveal an orgy observing them. Bravo, Jack! A pretty face'll only get you so far, unless you're a rock star. Jack travels to different embassies, in some capacity, and wanders the streets of Stockholm gawking at foxy ladies. Me? Envious? Maybe.

There ARE unintentional laughs to be found, courtesy of Jack blandly reciting graphic sexual acts. Also, one performer looks disturbingly like Neil Young.

There's a fly in my soup. Burn in hell, Jack.

Sol says: The beautiful Maria Lynn/Marie Forsa is similarly well-cast as Mac Ahlberg's FLOSSIE, a film that only flirts with hardcore -perhaps its main defect.

Not actually true. The film features plenty of hardcore footage of fellatio and intercourse. The film only lacks the current obsession with male ejaculation.

The film is beautifully lit and filmed, and the lead actress is adorable. I'd describe it as an excellent "couples movie", unlike the vast majority of the current product. It is explicit, without being gynecological.

Poor Jack Archer...he's handsome, intelligent, well dressed and well hung. But he's trapped in a world of lesbians obsessed with other women. Fortunately, a few of them are willing to spread it for him on occasion. Unfortunately, the latest object of his lust, "Flossie," is not one of them.

Although Flossie is willing to orally service him now and then (and vice versa), our boy Jack has to look elsewhere if he wants to sail his gondola up the Grand Canal. Will this ever change? We don't know, but Jack, Flossie and Flossie's guardian each have a grand old time (and so do we) watching as they narrate flashbacks of their previous sexual encounters.

We see Jack drilling the pipes of various Euro-tarts at orgies and Gothic chateaus...we see Flossie diving for Tuna at the girl's school...and we see the guardian taking on an impressively endowed (and fully aroused) Jack during a previous rendezvous, when she wore a wig and he thought she was someone else.

While most of the sex is softcore, there are at least two scenes (both involving unnamed extras) where vaginal penetration was taking place. This involves a blonde party guest at the orgy, who is in so deep there are only the briefest side-glimpses of what's going on; and at the girl's school, where a man who bones one of Flossie's classmates is clearly "in," but the high angle and distance obscure most of the action.

"Flossie" is still worthwhile as a well produced and exceptionally well-photographed Euro-film. Handsome Jack Frank, whose second film this was, is onscreen much of the time and he makes the movie, no pun intended. (He later went on to hardcore before retiring from films in the mid '80s.)

As will happen in '70s smut films, the camera frequently eschews the sex shots we're there for, and instead lingers and lingers and lingers on closeups of various female faces (after all, where else will you see one of THOSE, right? Gag.)

Worth a look.

While strolling around Stockholm, an embassy worker becomes fascinated by an attractive older woman and a beautiful young girl accompanying her. He finally chances to meet the older woman and she brings him home and introduces him to the girl, Flossie. Moments later he and Flossie are exchanging oral favors (repeatedly). A half hour or so into the movie they finally take a break from the sex, and the man tells the girl the story of being seduced by three women and ending up the unwitting centerpiece in a sex-club orgy (Man, I hate it when that happens!). Flossie, in turn, tells him about how she was instructed in arts of masturbation and lesbianism at her strict boarding school for really, really sexy, overaged orphans. It turns out though that, aside from the masturbation, lesbianism, and oral sex, Flossie is actually an "untouched" virgin. The older woman is planning for the embassy worker to be her "first" (because he once converted HER from lesbianism and then apparently forgot all about it). She makes him hold off for awhile with Flossie and instead have sex with her. But, of course, he doesn't end up having to wait very long. . .

This is another very loose adaptation of Victorian-era literature by Swedish director/cinematographer Mac Ahlberg (he had earlier tackled John Cleland's "Fannie Hill" and Emile Zola's "Nana"). Between its somewhat classier-than-usual origins, its decent cinematography and music, and its avoidance of hardcore porn conventions (like extreme close-ups of pistoning genitalia and spraying bodily fluids), it ends up being a pretty tasteful affair overall. As Flossie, a barely (barely) legal Maria Forsa is definitely the best thing about this. Forsa was one of the most appealing "Swedish sin"-era beauties. She was perhaps most well-known for several movies she made with expatriate American director Joe Sarno. Kim Franck is also pretty good as the older woman, but like a lot of porn actresses she's saddled with a ridiculous matronly hair-do to make her look older than she really was (while Forsa, of course, is in pig tails at one point). The embassy worker, similarly, is played by a younger man with his hair dyed slightly grey to resemble a sophisticated middle-age playboy type.

Obviously, whatever "plot" this thing has never gets in the way of the sex. This isn't as good as Ahlberg's best films like "I, a Woman", but it's better than anything he did after he went hardcore, and it's worth seeing for Maria Forsa if nothing else.

Mac Ahlberg has come up with a winner in this porn film. Marie Forsa is superbly cast as Flossie the young girl who entrances embassy worker, Jack Archer (Jack Frank) as well as entrancing the male population who see this film. Marie Forsa oozes innocence as well as sexuality which explains her popularity. We must not forget the other beautiful women who appear here.

Maybe the film has been censored to some degree because although Jack Frank appears several times with an erection and there are a number of sex scenes, there are no climax shots and no penetration shots that we get in hard porn nowadays. There are some imaginative scenes such as the orgy scene in which a blindfolded Jack has a threesome in front of an audience; and another scene in which a local stud has the pick of several girls.

Overall, this film combines very sexy girls with a good script, the only blot though is a too frequent use of the close-up of faces when a bit of restraint to show those beautiful bodies would not have gone amiss. Well worth seeing though.