Femme

I have to forewarn you I haven't seen all this movie on video release yet, but did happen to watch it a long time ago at the movies. Anastasia and Damir carry out a shipboard and island romance in a poor retread of Taming of the Shrew. A lot of distracting time fillers can produce sleep too fast, like when Anastasia (Miss Derek) poses for a photographer in fancy clothes, making Damir jealous again. Peter Hooten has a terrible dubbed sounding voice. Even though this was an American production, it did get released in other countries first.

As for fans of the magnificent Bo Derek like me, this is a good addition to the your collection. She looks very fresh and naive in this movie. She plays the role of an innocent little girl. But she soon finds a way to satisfy her sexual desires. Check it out.

Reasons to watch the movie:

1) Bo Derek at 16 looks good and occasionally gets naked. She does a pretty good job playing an immature, insecure 16 year old beauty, in fact

2) Many shots of a pretty Greek island

But:

1) Peter Hooten turns in the worst performance by an actor since Brutus played Caeser's friend in "Roman Senate Proceedings of March 15." He delivers each and every line in a delightful baritone bellow. Turn down the volume whenever he speaks. Preferably all the way down

2) Bo's fantasies are sadly tame, especially by today's standards. A few turns in the bath and as a fully clothed model

3) The plot is skimpier than Bo's costumes

You have to understand this movie was shot in 1970 apparently wasn't released for almost 10 years.

What to say about this? Strangely it will probably survive the test of time, 200 years from now people will watch this for the location photography and the filming. Bo Derek of course is the Fantasy here.

If you understand this movie as its suppose to be a fantasy! Hot beautiful girl on a greek island, making love, etc etc.. its great.. the theme was common in the 70s and early 80s.. so John Derek was a master of these type films.. like tinto brass.. or the directors of Emmanuelle etc etc... so take it for what it is. A low budget fantasy film with a very young Bo Derek. Of course she goes on over the decades as she grows up and does more sexually motivated films more mature. But this is the beginning of her career and her journey into woman hood, her coming of age film... born on a greek island so to speak! LOL not much of a story. But most of these types films dont... anyway, if you find the film.. its worth a watch to see Mykonos how it was.. athenes how it was in 1970.

Fantasies (1981)

* 1/2 (out of 4)

This was originally shot in 1973 when Bo Derek, then going by her original name, was 16-years-old and involved with director, writer and cinematographer John Derek. Needless to say, due to the subject matter this film wasn't released until 1981 after Bo had become a sex symbol with 10. In the film, she plays a young girl who begins to wonder about her changing body as well as her growing feelings for her older step brother (Peter Hooten). That's pretty much the story of this pretty bland romantic-drama that manages to be quite boring throughout the so-called controversial subject matter. It needs to be said that the young Derek has several nude scenes here, which is why the film couldn't find an original release and it's also going to be a reason why most people are going to want to stay away from this thing. I'll let one's own moral stance on the nudity decide whether they want to go any further with the film. The entire film has an extremely cheap feel to it and I really do have to wonder what John Derek was trying to do. I'm sure it was show off his young lover but it looks like he would have hired someone else to do the writing because his screenplay is quite horrid, is all over the place and it never really makes much sense. The love story is handled in a tender way but it just never comes to life. The entire subplot dealing with the hotel on the island is just bland. The film has some memorable Greek locations but these here aren't enough to make the thing worth sitting through. Hooten offers up a downright awful performance and the supporting cast isn't much better. Bo actually isn't too bad here and I'd argue that the performance here is much better than the stuff from her popular period. The film itself is pretty bad and not worth viewing except for those who want to see a young Bo. Or, if you want to see a scene where her grandfather pulls her shirt up to see how she's growing. Yeah, it's like that.