The Fourth Body

Roy Stuart is no doubt a master of photographing and filming pretty young women in visually pleasing and sexually charged scenes. As he does here. The problem is that this is a weird collection of stuff seemingly from the cutting room floor, and assembled and glued together by the soundtrack, for over an hour. It's called The Fourth Body because there are four actresses. So eventually the "fourth body" comes up in the film. There is no theme, no narrative, and absolutely no story. In other words, it's gonzo prn but without the hardcore elements (as far as I could tell), but in boring.

Don't watch boring stuff.

Roy Stuart likes to shoot with just the in-camera microphone (i. E. crappy dialogue recording) and he kind of makes up for it with the dubbed soundtrack. An interesting technique. However, not enough to make this movie anything but boring.

Roy Stuart started as photographer, but later made documentary movies as well, such as "Glimpse". His photographs often deal with the female body. In The Fourth Body we apparently see hem at work. Not that we see much of the photographers, the movie concentrates on females. Sometimes they are dressed, usually they are undressed. We see a few hardcore scenes being recorded, but usually we see females on the set. Many of these sets are either artsy, weird or fascinating. There are also shorts scenes of the changing of the guard in, at least I believe, Copenhagen. This movie is not a movie in the traditional sense, for no real story is told. In fact it is more or less a collage of moving photographs.

I was fascinated by the movie, but at the end it left me empty handed. There is no point to it and in my humble opinion it is extremely pretentious. Nevertheless it did have some extremely attractive women, scenes are very short, so you don't get bored easily. And I never saw anything like before. This is a product I hate and love at the same time, even though I dislike the movie's pointlessness.

I rate this one a 5 out of 10, but doubt whether I will ever watch it again.