Les mille et une perversions de Felicia

I didn't try to count them, but I think the "Felicia" character in this movie has somewhat less than 1001 perversions. Actually, there are only a few "perversions" on display here, and they are very 70's, very French,and VERY male ones.

This the familiar story of an older but handsome man who has a beautiful wife (Rebecca Brooke), but is tempted by a younger girl, in this case the teenage daughter of his wife's friend who comes to stay with them (Beatrice Harnois, who looks like, but isn't, Leanora Fani). The twist here is that he is not initially interested in the sexually aggressive, petulant nubile (even though she spends about half the movie walking around their home stark naked), so SHE sets her sights on seducing the wife instead! But just to needlessly complicate matters, the guy is a schoolteacher who is being pursued by another scantily clad Lolita (played by an actress who looks like, but isn't, Annie Belle). This girl is one of his students and the niece of his colleague, who keeps bring her and her weird androgynous brother (who looks like, but isn't, the weird, androgynous kid from "Damned in Venice") to the couple's house. You would expect the whole thing would end in divorce, a lesbian conversion, and/or SOMEONE going to jail for corrupting a minor, but then this is a male fantasy above all else where there's nothing that can't be smoothed over by some hot three-way sex!

I've never seen Beatrice Harnois before, but I guess she was in the infamous French film "Pussy Talk", and she was obviously somewhat older than her character here (she actually doesn't look much younger than her "mother's friend"). Rebecca Brooke (aka Mary Medum) was actually an American actress and one of the prettiest girls to ever do hardcore porn (although her hardcore career was limited to a couple scenes in Radley Metzger's "The Image"). Besides her role as the nearly mute, submissive in that notorious S-and-M classic,, she is best known for a a pair of Joe Sarno softcore films "Confessions of an American Wife" and "Abigail Clayton is Back in Town". The French director of this, Max Pecas, had a long career in "Eurotica", but like Jean Rollin, Jose Benzeraf, and some others,he was largely put out of business by the advent of hardcore, a genre he was simply far too talented for. He may not have had a grasp on realistic characterizations or believable action and dialogue, but he really knew how to do some beautiful visuals. (There's one especially impressive scene where he photographs the main couple making love underwater at night in a lighted swimming pool). This movie is not that "perverse" actually, but it is pretty erotic.

I did not give this a 10 due to lighting. How much of the problem with this print was due to American distributor: Excalibur I don't know but there is a break in the middle and inexplicable lighting problems which I doubt a talent of Max Pecas' abilities would overlook, yet it has happened before.

Deauville France is the setting and a charming country home. A 30 something married couple agree to have as a guest, depending on which description is accurate either:

1. the wife's niece or 2. a daughter of a friend of the wife

Beatrice Harnois plays the niece, friend's daughter and she is quite an actress.

One feels as if one is, indeed, peeking into the lives of a couple and their guest.

The delicious Mary Mendum, credited as "Rebecca Brooke," is sultry, stunning, and VERY hot playing the wife whose mind is played with by the Harnois character.

Jean Roche, PAUL, is exceptionally good and outshines many of the more highly regarded "straight" actors whether here(US) or Europe.

This is about a young woman who effectively controls a husband and wife.

Creating some real havoc and conflict along the way.

There is a happy resolution, at least to my view and overall a very erotic film.

As with so many of the early European pornos or erotiques there is genuine character development and storyline.

I might add that what the American distributors often do to these classics is butcher them. For what possible reason I cannot fathom.

America needs to liberate the artistic portrayal of sexuality and sensuality.

If you can find this film it is definitely worth viewing.

It's taken me a long time but I'm glad I persevered and finally procured a DVDs of this title. The origin is Italy and comes with two options, soft and hard. The soft option has no English soundtrack but the hard one does. Now I've been a fan of Rebecca Brooke for some years now and have gradually building up a collection of her work. I love her Joe Sarno stuff, especially "Abigail Lesley is back in town" and "Confessions of a Young American Housewife" where, although not explicit, she and her co-stars are believed to have had full sex on the shoot. On Metzer's "The Image" she went a stage further and dabbled in some hardcore. But believe me that's lightweight compared to this title. Rebecca and Beatrice Harnois really go for it from the get go in what is probably right up there with the best in this genre. The only down side is poor lighting in a couple of scenes which I'm assuming was deliberate. Probably sourced from VHS but if you want to see the best of Rebecca hardcore it doesn't get better than this!

Béatrice Harnois plays a young teenager (Felicia) who is sent by a relative to live with Gabrielle (a deliciouse Mary Mendum) and her husband Paul (played by Jean Roche) for the summer holidays. It's never clear whether this is the summer of Felicia's sexual awakening, or if the scamp was already well awake, though, regardless of her nature, she's determined to "awaken" anyone who crosses her path. No one will be safe from this girl.

There are two versions of this film: the original 96-minute adult "hardcore" version and the edited 94-minute "softcore" erotic version. Both versions were released in theaters and on VHS (the final quality is what it is). The shots missing from the "softcore" version are basically those of the usual explicit sexual acts where, by the way, we can enjoy a very sexy Mary Mendum, whose carnal involvement with this production has been seen very few times since.

"Felicia" is one of Max Pecas' best movies. A happily married couple have their friend's pouty teenage daughter over for a few weeks in the summer. The girl teases, peeks, interrupts and taunts, and seduces. It's beautifully photographed and executed, hardcore but tasteful. Rebecca Brooke (Mary Mendum) and Beatrice Harnois are excellently ast.