Le diable rose (1988) User Reviews (2)

Sex comedy meets Nazi occupation

[SMK-4 · 7/10 · 17 July 2002]

A surprisingly little-known French sex comedy, from the days when soft pornography was vanishing fast from most of Europe. Surprisingly, because it has good production values and is generally well-made. Perhaps, the light-hearted combination of France's nazi occupation with the sex comedy genre is more than many people can stomach. Especially, since this is more a sex film with jokes than a titillating comedy.

I was not quite sure what to make of the acting. Much of it appears rather ham-fisted, but that may well have been intentional, to create something like a modernised (and sexified) Carry-On movie. The two English officers certainly fit into this mould. Former porn actress Brigitte Lahaie has a lot of screen presence, and she can act, as she had shown before on many occasions. Thus, with very little competition from the rest of the cast she finds it easy to dominate every scene she is in.

Many ideas in this film seem to have been nicked from José Bénazéraf's 1978 porn flick Bordell SS. Both are situated in a French brothel frequented by German soldiers just before and leading to D-day, in both films members of the resistance ask the brothel for support, and both feature a dubious German female officer with a disturbed sense of her sexuality.

symptoms of love

[uskifia777 · 10/10 · 21 November 2012]

It is not believed that the French cinema can be so - though perhaps it is with such films best acquaintance with French cinema. Movie scenes seamlessly merge with one another, naive faced characters, and thunder of war around - it becomes a film. Film with blurred end and beginning, the film for those who laugh at war. What to do with your love during the war - just depends on who is at war! Two partisan Englishmen in a brothel themselves become employees of the brothel, learning in this apple of debauchery. Movie title says it all, and the passion and sin - against the bloody war devil does not look anything special. Every gesture and every movement of the characters of their eyes - that's what the camera is looking. The film seems painted in bright colors, plot line deviates from the war and becomes a story about the symptoms of love. The film was shot with dignity - and it shows, the actors really are unique, and each frame you want to stretch.