Catherine Spaak was a pretty actress perhaps best known to Hollywood for her support past in Hotel. She's very cute but wasn't really strong enough a performer to carry a movie - although to be fair her performance here is dubbed, so maybe she lost something by not having her own voice. But a blank expression is still a blank expression which is what Spaak has a lot of the time.
Still, she is good looking and at least the film is about a woman seeking sexual fulfillment, not a man. She's a widow who discovers her dead husband cheated on her (making home movies of said cheating, no less) so she reads a dirty book and decides to get into it herself. So she seduces her husband's best friend, her dentist, a guy who tries to rape her at first but then she goes along with it, etc before finding true love with a doctor (Jean Louis Trintignant) who doesn't mind her desire for kink - which is kind of liberated, and reminded me a little of the film Secretary.
There is some nudity, though I was never sure if Spaak had a body double or not - I think she was protected. Some of the playing is too broad, and over the top, but after a while I got into this and particularly enjoyed the last third because we finally had another character apart from Spaak (Trintignant) who we could spend some time with and get to know. I feel this is the sort of movie that would have been better focusing on a couple of characters in depth rather than just having a series of comic random adventures. Anyways...
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