Sensations (1975).txt
Sensations (1975)
Genre: Adult
Country: France | Netherlands
Director: Lasse Braun
Language: English
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073682/
Loosely plotted along the lines of Alice in Wonderland, the prude heroine being an ignorant American (surely as close to a sheltered "innocent" as the worldly-wise Italian, whose real name's Alberto Ferro, could imagine) with an acid-fueled Amsterdam standing in for Carroll's mushroom-ingesting netherworld, swiftly scurries from one sublime sexual set-piece to the next once the stage is set. Making her way across the pond from London (no longer swinging now that the '60s had well and truly passed) to hot 'n' happening Amsterdam, ostensibly to meet her photographer boyfriend, naive Margaret from Minnesota (Braun's then girlfriend and muse Brigitte Maier) will get a lot more than she bargained for when she falls in with the cheese country's carnal crowd, cautiously clutching onto her beleaguered modesty like a prize commodity until ultimate surrender to the sins of the flesh set her free and literally allow her to "blend in" during film's oft-discussed quizzical final scene.
Those who are used to run-of the-mill mainstream porn films should beware: the mundane and the kinky are presented equally here, and the notorious Braun doesn't seem to care who is offended. Lasse Braun was not a director who was concerned with making cinematic art; he wanted sex to be dirty and raw onscreen. The film was a huge success at the Cannes Film Festival; that combined with Maier's popularity as a Penthouse Pet made it a curio here in NY. For the adventurous, give it a try. For everyone else: you have been warned.
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