Product Details

• Actors: Joëlle Coeur, Marie-France Morel, Britt Anders, Annie Belle, Agnès Lemercier
• Directors: Jean Rollin
• Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Synapse Films
• DVD Release Date: December 17, 2002
• Run Time: 102 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00006LPGC
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #54,439 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Bacchanales Sexuelles" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Valerie, a beautiful young girl, watches over her cousin's place while he's away for six months. She spends her first night there reading, playing records, and calling her girlfriend Sophie over for some hot lesbian sex! That night, members of a crazed sex cult break in and mistakenly kidnap Sophie. Valerie's cousin, a member of this cult, has some incriminating photos and the leader wants to ruin his life. Valerie and Sophie's horny friend Fred go to the cult's mansion stronghold to stop all this madness!

And madness it is! This cult classic from Jean Rollin is an insane mix of humor and sex. Beautiful nude women, tons of on-screen lovin', and even French maids beating the snot out of each other. What's not to like here? The US version of this film was cut by almost 30 minutes (!!!) and Synapse Films presents the longer French version on this DVD. BACCHANALES SEXUELLES. It's exactly what you this it isn't! A.k.a. FLY ME THE FRENCH WAY/TOUT LE MONDE IL EN A DEUX. END

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

58 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning....., April 21, 2003

By	e5150 (United States) - See all my reviews

I simply can't begin to describe this film. It delivers everything a red-blooded human male could possibly want: It's porn, but not porn; It's hard-softcore. Chock full o' nudity and rather explicit sex for a non-porn film, it is not meant to be watched with an analytical eye. Of course there's a paper-thin plot. DUH! The turn-on here is that these aren't technically porn actors in some serious hot and heavy activity. For those of you who got started watching tripe like Basic Instinct or Wild Orchid, THIS is what you are really looking for. American actresses won't dare get this nasty.

45 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A Silly Sexual Farce, October 22, 2005

By	Mr D. "Artist/Designer/Kibitzer" (Cave Creek, Az United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

Ok! So it had a Swiss cheese plot. That's not so unusual for a soft core move is it? I've seen my share of soft porn movies and usually, not always but usually, what was lacking in a storyline was made up by the fact, that numerous gorgeous gals were romping around in the altogether, doing stimulating things to make you forget, there was even supposed to be a plot.

Yes, Bacchanalles had a lot of nudity and a lot of make believe sex but except for the star, Joelle Coeur, who was genuinely a looker, most of the rest, looked like the girls, that get better looking at closing time. I know everybody can't always be fussy about the women they make love to, but certainly, they can be fussy about the ones they watch women make love. Right?

So what do we have? We have a plot, which, believe it of not, could have been the inspiration for "Eyes Wide Shut". Oops! I've already said too much! Bacchanalles Sexuelles, meaning `sexual festival`, features a generally unattractive cast of amateurish, stiff (not that way) actors and actresses, performing mostly sans clothing, in a fairly low budget, thirty year old erotic, French movie, with subtitles, where you sometimes have to choose between reading the subtitles, or watching the action. Still interested? Read on.

Valerie, the one bright spot in the movie, played by Joelle Coeur, who along with her friend Sophia, (Brigette De Borghese) is apartment sitting for her cousin, when Sophia, unbeknownst to Valerie is kidnapped by a sex cult. Valerie is awakened in the morning by Fred, whom Sophia apparently invited over without Valerie's knowledge. Fred forces Valerie to have sex, which she ultimately enjoys.

In the meantime The culprits realize they have kidnapped the wrong girl, for they really needed Valerie and not Sophia for their evil purposes, so the head seductress, (my expression) sends one of the cultists, pretending to be a maid, back to the apartment to garner information on Valerie, where she promptly ends up in a bathtub with Valerie and Fred before taking their ma`nage a trois to the small (double) bed in the bedroom, where the action continues for what seems like hours.

Eventually the real maid shows up and Fred and Valerie, the super sleuths (that`s sleuths as in detectives, not sluts as in ....) that they are, start to unravel the mystery of Sophia. But not until we have a half dozen more sex scenes including the grand finale, an orgy of cultists. WOW!
Conclusion

I suppose this movie in a sense was an orgy. An excess of mediocrity. It also had a sense of absurdity. This may have been purposeful, which, it was would somewhat mitigate against the amateurish feeling of the film, However, that said, for all it`s weaknesses, it wasn't that bad. Like I said the story was full of holes and except for two ladies, the femmes were closer to homely than attractive, or they were hard and used looking. That said, their bodies were decent and the were enough (probably a dozen) sex scenes, that I wouldn't stop anyone from watching this bomb.

Another point should make is that being filmed over thirty years ago and in Europe, the girls were unshaved, including in some cases, under the arms. Also the color quality was a little flat.

38 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars just short of being another great '70's erotic classic....., October 13, 2003

By A Customer

I don't know what all the fuss is about Jean Rollin's films! This soft core 1970's Eurosex farce has plenty of nude women writhing around with each other, in one scene after another. However, it falls short of having "sexually tense" scenes that would seriously arouse its viewers. The women here are good looking enough...The "simulated" sex scenes are somewhat hot but many of them go on for too long to be credible. The dungeon sequence could have been filmed much hotter, especially if Rollin had showed the captive nude girl actually get whipped and beaten, the director opted for whpping sound effects and (lame) screaming in the background.

The only reason this film garners three stars from me is that it still has more sexual freedon than anything produced by Hollywood or Canal + today! Again...I would highly recommend the supreme '70's sex classic "The Image" or "The Story of O" to those fellows who want to screw their dripping wet dates either during, or shortly after she watches either of those two soft core sexy films! Women will say they don't like to watch those kinds of films....but check how wet [they are] and see if they have "spoken the truth"!!!