Passionate Pleasures[1978]
Pierre has sexual fantasies about his next door neighbor Marianne leading his wife to get him an appointment with a sex therapist. Jean-Louis Vattier dreams about his lovely downstairs neighbor, Brigitte Lahaie, although his dreams occasionally turn into nightmares involving his hard hat co-worker Dominique Aveline. One particularly strange and violent sequence is not made any more watchable by some slow motion fighting accompanied by the usual ‘arousing’ sax music instead of more threatening music, but this entire film is one big incomprehensible trip anyway, so the viewer had better prepare for more far out scenes. Pierre awakes to find his beautiful blond wife (although she’s no Brigitte) played by Ursula White. Obviously their marriage is in trouble, with him living in a fantasy world of his own making while she, Janine, has taken a lover of the same sex (Liliane Lemieuvre as Rosette). Pierre spots Brigitte in a book store and begins to fantasize once more.
Movie: Passionate Pleasures
Top 8 Billed Cast
Marianne
Pierre
Party Guest
Rosette
Party Guest
Top Movie Cast(8)
Brigitte Lahaie
Marianne
Jean-Louis Vattier
Pierre
Dominique Aveline
Ghislain Van Hove
Party Guest
Liliane Allan
Rosette
Richard Lemieuvre
Party Guest
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Claude Bernard-Aubert
Director
Claude Bernard-Aubert
Writer
Alain Goraguer
Original Music Composer
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