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Alice in S&M Land

Esoteric symbols and underground lairs. Rouge the nipples before you rouge the lips. A near impossible to see fashion photographer’s Super 8 fantastique fetish film shot on a mushroom farm starring Jean Rollin and José Bénazéraf muse, Joëlle Cœur and future Pussy Talk performer, Ellen Earl (billed Buckley) has emerged from its dank pit.

As film historian Christophe Bier tells it, a lab stole director Hubert Lacoudre’s negative, and discouraged, he abandoned the intended larger project with only this 17 minute piece completed. Miraculously, a print survives, and is presented to the home viewing public for the first time ever on Indicator’s release of Girls Without Shame.

I probably don’t need to sell you on Joëlle Coeur’s naturalistic beauty, but really what’s so wonderful about her is that she could play this naive Alice down the rabbit hole just as well as the bawdy bitch of The Demoniacs. A true wonder of French erotic cinema, and a shame her career only spanned four short years.

16 mins & 34 Seconds For any brave viewer out there…..