21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A surprisingly touching coming of age film, January 27, 1999
By A Customer
It's a shame this is not available on video because this is actually one of the better rites of passage movies involving a young student and older woman. Usually the stuff of dreck, this movie has a terrific performance by Maruschka Detmers as a mercurial soon-to-be bride who falls in love(?) with a student. She is a real presence and raises this film to "gentle fable" status. Please come back to availability status soon.
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33 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Cool story, shallow ending, December 26, 2005
This review is from: Devil in the Flesh (DVD)
I give this movie four stars because Maruschka Detmers is so cute, otherwise it would only rate a three.
The story is plausible; Woman falls for a younger guy while her fiancee is in jail. The sex scenes are hot, and indeed, one is actually explicit.
However the end is lacking. It leaves you with the question: Is that all?
It is worth watching, at least once
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44 of 56 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
depends on what you want, July 5, 2006
This review is from: Devil in the Flesh (DVD)
Each scene is one shot, and that shot goes on and on and on, sometimes staying with the same act or lack of action. This film is pretension personified, but that's okay. Many people can't tell the difference between pretension and art. The music too is full of squeaks and squawks. In case you didn't know, that means that the music too is high art.
There is no story. Boy and girl see each other, and without preliminaries hit the sack. We see boy & girl here, there, in the sack, here, there, in the sack, etc. Occasionally we get a shot of some of the other characters.
Because of the lack of dynamics, the film is not effective, either as drama or as eroticism. Ironically, "The Summer of '42" was much more erotic even without any nudity (which would have helped).
The vaulted sex scenes are three in number, chest and shoulders, and they last about three minutes each. The much-touted fellatio scene is actually surprisingly good, more convincing than the "love" scenes.
There are also a few brief full-frontal scenes of the star, who has a gorgeous body (hence, the two star rating).
Bottom line: the only reason to see this movie is the nudity and the sex. But there are many better movies for that. So, only if you need the pretentiousness in order to permit yourself to see a sex movie should you see this.
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