Arvostelut (1)
It is difficult to judge, because this French porn flick, which was very successful in its day, is now available only in an edited-down version on an Alpha France DVD, where a lot of material apparently wound up on the cutting-room floor and the continuity of the sequences is severely disrupted. In its current form, the film comes across as a typical example of productions from the late 1980s and early 1990s. The shaky screenplay, which is causally underdeveloped and lets a number of essential elements fizzle out unnoticed, serves only to flimsily string together sex scenes characterised by laughable perversity. The film’s naughty title character attempts to drive her parents to divorce so that she can take over the family home and enjoy herself there with her lover (the film futilely tries to give the impression that she has a boyfriend, but it’s evident from the first shot that the character in biker gear is a woman). But instead of focusing the narrative on the paradox that her effort to drive her parents to infidelity are congruent with their free and debauched approach to sex, it just mechanically jumps from one sex act to the next. As mentioned previously, however, it’s impossible to say if the film was completely different in its original form – it wouldn’t be the first time that an insensitive Alpha France cut for a DVD release led to a radically new narrative. But even in its current form, Charlotte mouille sa culotte (or Charlotte, Wet Your Panties) can be appreciated for the playful perversity of the premise of the individual acts, or at least their absurd staging. On the other hand, the first sequence, in which Charlotte entices her mother’s lover into the marital bedroom, where her father is sleeping with her mother, cannot be surpassed by anything in the whole film in terms of the degree of laughable points, partial “twists” and sticky sexuality.
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