Cinefamily's France Goes POP! series --
Erotissimo – August 12th 9:45pm-ish
Erotissimo’s Pop Art ingredients don’t just pop — they positively explode across the screen in a mirthful tumble of all the coolest and most colorful elements the height of Sixties cinema has to offer. This playful satire of the advertising age (directed by Gerard Pires, who, in addition to making both art films and action flicks, helmed hundreds of commercial spots himself) focuses on a married woman (Annie Girardot) who tries to spice up the sex life between her and her distracted husband while under a deluge of sexy movies, sexy ads on the streets, sexy consumer products, sexy intimate clothing and sex talks with her mother and female friends. Using a Hard Day’s Night-like template of silly episodic tomfoolery as a launching point, Erotissimo is a moment-by-moment, scene-by-scene feast of a film, and is a non-stop parade of eye-popping modern fashion, architecture, whirlwind proto-music video editing and a spectacular psych-funk soundtrack by William Sheller rich with thick, hip-shaking basslines.
Dir. Gérard Pirès, 1969, digital presentation, 100 min.