Rent Madame Claude (1977)

Boring Drama With Dull Sex Scenes - Madame Claude review by GI

After the box office success of Emmanuelle (1974) director Just Jaeckin seems to have been given carte blanche to make more soft focus, soft porn films that are totally ridiculous and particularly difficult to watch today. This one is based on a real character. Claude (Françoise Fabian) is a well connected woman with a dark past who runs a stream of high class prostitutes and whose clients are powerful men in big business, government and the judiciary. An annoying photographer (Murray Head) seems to be friends with all the girls and manages to take pictures of their clients for the police so he can get his previous convictions cleared away. On the side the CIA are after the photographs too. Anyway none of this daft plot is at all important as it's just a device to link the various sex scenes which basically consist of different couples writhing around on beds, in baths, on beaches etc etc. They are probably the least sexy sex scenes committed to celluloid. It's a dull, stupid film that despite a recent restoration isn't worth your time. Klaus Kinski has a cameo as does Robert Webber who undoubtedly needed the money!!