À fleur de peau

I saw this film in a movie theater when it first was released. A man in the movie theater I was in yelled out "what's the point?" during the movie. The point of this movie is to provide visual and aural candy for the eyes and the ears. TMJ has two very attractive and sexy leads in Sherilyn Fenn and Richard Tyson, and the soundtrack nicely compliments the action. No, it's not Shakespeare, but it's fun. Zalman King loves to show beautiful women in his movies, without worrying too much about a plot or dialogue that makes sense. All my women friends that have seen this movie love it, because we as women all love looking at hunky Richard Tyson. Enough said. Another erotic movie to check out is "Delta of Venus", also by Zalman King. It does actually have a plot along with lots of sex. Anais Ninn (the author of "Delta of Venus") would be proud of Mr. King's effort on this one. This is one I have viewed many times, because it is such a great fantasy and a kick. Kristy MacNicol and the rest of the supporting cast is great too. I think this film will appeal more to women than to men. Just don't take it too seriously...

I'm shocked to see how many people want to just go on and on about how great this movie is!!! For the person who said when he/she gets someone to watch it, they want to watch it again - I find it hard to believe. I only watched it because I was at a friend's house one night with a bunch of other women and this one girl had brought it along to watch. It had been her mother's favorite movie (before she committed suicide) so no one wanted to tell this girl we didn't want to watch it. When I saw Sherilyn Fenn was in it, I thought I might like it after all (since I was a Twin Peaks fan). Well - it was terrible from the get go. The plot - if you can call it that - was so stupid and contrived. I couldn't believe it would hold anyone's interest. Then - personally - I found the lead man, Perry, repulsive. Yeah - great body - but did anyone bother looking from the neck UP? It was all just an excuse for soft core *. A bunch of poorly scripted scenes thrown together to try and make an excuse for soft core *. That's all this is. ** SPOILER ** A guy breaks into your home and you find him in your shower and start a hot and heavy affair with him? PLEASE! Flag on the play! No - you don't - you call 911. And no matter how horrible he was - she kept going back for the sex?? Yeah right! She was so pretty she could have had her pick of men. She could have found another hunk who wouldn't treat her like dirt if she wanted to step out on the boring fiancé. I had trouble holding my tongue throughout. "Give me break"! was heard frequently throughout, and not just by me. No one wanted to tell this girl after that not one of us liked that movie even one little bit and could not understand why it would have been her mother's (or anyone's) favorite. That's me and 4 other women - all thinking it was absolute trash. Now - if you get off on soft core * - go ahead and get a thrill. Otherwise - PASS!

The interesting thing is not that we have another "Lady Chatterly's Lover," nor that unlike its namesake, it does focus on the prurient as its anchor. No, the interesting thing for me that it is set in the south. When this came out, as now, the south of the US has all sorts of cinematic baggage. The husky boys are more animal, the rich boys are more daftly aristocratic, and the girls more vapid. Its a land created for cinematic stereotypes. So the deal is that while we are distracted by a few nipples, there's a more powerful story chugging along here, one that feeds the Chatterly story by casting a world in which no one controls any emotions, where guns and trucks are the first things you expect, and where the large are small. Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.

Without a shadow of a doubt, this is the worst film I have ever seen.... and, over a period of 50 years watching films, I have seen many bad ones. The script is embarrassingly risible, the direction is pedestrian but the acting is dire, dire, dire..... how come these people get paid?. The two lead characters look, for most of the film, like the cardboard on the back of a cereal packet. I have never rated Sherilyn Fenn very highly... her performances in both Boxing Helena and Twin Peaks were, to put it mildly, amateurish but in this film she makes even a piece of dead wood look like an Oscar winner. I managed to sit through only 20 minutes of this rubbish before switching off the DVD and throwing it away! Erotic???? There's more eroticism in a wet paper bag floating down a drain in a rainstorm! Zalman King should take up dominoes instead.... he certainly can't direct a film and, as for his script..... my 5 year old grand daughter can string words together to create better, more interesting and cohesive sentences than his. This is an insult to the film industry. Even if someone offers you money to watch it... don't.... avoid it like the plague!

It's a two moon travesty when peroxide blonde Sherilyn Fenn rebels against her society family and fiancé to rip the T-shirts off Richard Tyson, a carny hunk in tight jeans. Lousy attempt to mine the same erotic territory as "Nine 1/2 Weeks", but at least that film had a competent director...this thing's got Zalman King (you know right away where he's coming from: he keeps the girl naked and begging). Kristy McNichol shows up in a cameo played for high camp value (she gets naked too!). A couple of lines made me laugh, but film is embarrassing when it tries to get serious. The crux of this garbage is that Fenn's character can't make a decision without stripping and crying, stripping and crying. Maybe she should have dumped Tyson for McNichol? *1/2 from ****