24 June 2021

Jean-Pierre Mocky's Les Vierges (1963)

Les Vierges is five short stories about young women losing their virginity.

In the first, Marie-Claude (Stefania Sandrelli) has two dragueurs chasing her, only to give herself to a stranger at a fair. (How many fairs have appeared in films?)

Geneviève (Catherine Diamant) is the daughter of the constipated banker Marchaix (Jean Poiret) and marries Robert (Jean-Pierre Honoré). Their honeymoon night is ruined for her when her husband leaves her with the feeling that she has been raped.

Christine (Anne-Marie Sauty) is the financée of Xavier (Gérard Blain), an idiot aristocrat who works for Marchaix. Christine plays games with him to spend the night with a painter.

Sophie (Josiane Rivarolla) loves Micky (Johnny Monteilhet), and although they can't find anywhere to have sex they end up in a luxurious bed.

Chemist Nora (Catherine Derlac) is in love with her boss Berthet (Charles Aznavour), who's in his forties and hoping to divorce and marry her. She loses her virginity to a stranger and suddenly Berthet is no longer interested.

This is of course France before the sexual revolution, although it seems to be a revolution just waiting to happen.

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