Perfumed Garden: Tales of the Kama Sutra

This was like a light dramatized classical theming of spiritual topics with a sensual overtone. I thought it was great on a number of levels including the spiritual, the understanding of east meets west, artistic and architectural notions, and not only the sensual, the sensual in terms of history and relationship values.

OK, obviously the person who posted before me did not watch the entire movie. It is a very good movie about love that survives through the ages. A man and woman are having relationship troubles because he is impotent with her. They decide to travel to India for him to study and preserve a temple as part of his job.

Along the way, the couple meets a very strange woman that tells a heart-breaking story of a couple who could not be. The story is of a monk who visits a castle to paint pictures of the king and queen performing Kama Sutra (which back then was a way of life). He falls in love with one of their helpers and betrays his vow of celibacy. The couple dies alone and apart.

After this story is told, the strange woman tells Micheal that he is the reincarnation of the monk and she is of the helper. (He doesn't think she's crazy *rolling eyes*) She tells him that she has loved him for hundreds of years. Micheal admits to the woman that he is in love with another woman. The woman understands and tells him that she will love him for ages until they are able to be together.

In the end, the man is no longer impotent and the viewer is heart-broken by the woman's story.

That is what this movie is about and I would recommend it to anyone!

This movie had it's ups and downs. I enjoyed the scenery in India and the way the people of India dressed, danced and all the things that make India so colorful and different. It acts on the religon and culture of India. But what this movie could have done without is the couple that traveled there. They were so annoying I forgot who they were. I know the man was named Micheal and he was having problems in his relationship with his girlfriend for God knows why she tries to make the relationship work out with Micheal as he tells her that he's leaving her and going to India to check out some Budahs. They decide to go and while they are in India they come across a strange lady that claims to be a reincarnation of a servant girl that once lived in a paradise garden with royal subjects. The girl in the past falls in love with another man and seduces him but there is no indication of what happened to them other than the fact that they fell in love. Centuries past and in comes Micheal and the strange lady stops at nothing to get him back. Micheal soon begins to think the lady is crazy for accusing him of being a reincarnated monk and she finds herself lost.

This film purports to be erotic entertainment, but is neither fish nor foul. It is an unnecessarily complicated mediocre story not very well told, and from my point of view, not erotic. It is `chick porn,' thus we see no genitals or intercourse, but spend lots of time on The Relationship. There is brief full (female) frontal nudity, but it is purely incidental. We have to make do with a reasonable helping of bare breasts, but they aren't doing anything either. There is so little of any kind of sex in this film that the invocation of the Kama Sutra is a fraud. By introducing mysterious India, its ancient non-Calvinistic religions and its famous sexual philosophy, this film had great potential as a `classy' erotic film for people with at least a high school education, but it never developed into anything.

Do not, under any conditions, rent this reeking pile of dog-doo that purports to be a movie.

My lady and I thought this disk might make for a steamy evening's diversion. After all, the box describes the movie as being all about passion, love, etc. Well, it was a big disappointment. The film can be summed up as having the rich plot of a soft-core porn film, without any of the sex. That's right. It is a scam. There are very few love scenes. Most of them are brief, and involve the main characters getting into an argument. The plot is dull, and the dialog is totally awful. The acting is about on par for a porn film, too.

The only redeeming feature of this film is the fake parrot that appears in one of the dream sequences. A stuffed parrot is lying on its belly in a cage during two scenes. The thing is so fake, we both burst into laughter when the sound track included a parrot squawking. It might have been a dead parrot, but I think it was a doll.