French drama, AKA “The Woman in Red Boots”
A young writer uses her charms to seduce and destroy a cynic who has declared war on art.
Catherine Deneuve in La Femme aux Bottes Rouges (1974)
Nastya Golubeva Carax, Anna Prochniak and others topless in Les Rayons et les Ombres
AKA “The Rays and the Shadows: A Historical Drama” from France.
Wikipedia summarized the story:
After being recognized and assaulted in 1948 , actress Corinne Luchaire, a fallen film star, recounts her memories and the story of her family that led her to her degraded situation through disastrous and immoral choices during the Occupation .
His father, the journalist Jean Luchaire , and his German friend Otto Abetz worked in the 1920s to promote Franco-German friendship . Neither of them had any attraction to Nazism at that time . At a meeting, they invited representatives of the LICA (now LICRA).
The Nazis’ rise to power in Germany in 1933 gradually made them complicit in the new regime. Otto Abetz was expelled from France in 1937, but reappeared in the summer of 1940 as Germany’s ambassador to Paris (while the French government was in Vichy ), tasked with implementing a policy of collaboration between the Third Reich and defeated France . Jean Luchaire then founded Les Nouveaux Temps , a newspaper aimed at supporting Abetz’s policies.
Meanwhile, Corinne Luchaire , an actress and model since before the war, despite her young age, tried to make a name for herself in occupied France, but suffered the consequences of the tuberculosis her father had passed on to her, which prevented her from working. She alternated between stays in sanatoriums and a life of debauchery in Paris with the countesses of the Gestapo .
In contrast, more positive figures emerge, notably that of Jean Luchaire’s father, Julien , an academic and husband of a German Jewish woman, who disavows his son in an open letter published by Le Figaro in the unoccupied zone. A number of journalists leave the editorial staff when the collaborationist shift becomes clear ; one of them, Labarrière, later dies a victim of the repression against the Resistance .
Subsidized by the German embassy, Jean Luchaire’s newspaper worked for Nazi propaganda and was openly anti-Semitic and anti-communist . He actively participated in the return of the ashes of the Aiglon .
After the Liberation, Corinne and Jean Luchaire found refuge in Sigmaringen , Germany, in 1944 with the Pétain government and Louis-Ferdinand Céline . They were arrested by American soldiers on a road in the Black Forest in May 1945. After a trial before the High Court of Justice in January 1946, Jean Luchaire was executed by firing squad that same year, and Corinne was sentenced to ten years of national disgrace. Facing widespread hostility, she lived almost in seclusion, but one day received a friendly visit from Léonide Moguy , a Jewish filmmaker from Ukraine, with whom she had worked before the war. When she asked him for news of her sister, he told her that she had died in a concentration camp, and Corinne whispered , ” Sorry, I didn’t know. ” To which Moguy replied , ” Did you try to find out ? “
The film is structured as a series of flashbacks, beginning with Corinne’s life after the war, as she records her story in voice-over on a tape recorder. During the trial of Jean and Corinne Luchaire, the prosecutor, to summarize the prosecution’s case, borrows a phrase from the writer Charles Dantzig : “The words of scoundrels arm the arms of fools.”
Nastya Golubeva Carax
Anna Prochniak
Alicia Falco topless in episode 6 of The Map of Longing
Episode 6
Below are Johnny Moronic’s collages for the whole series
Johnny Moronic’s film clips for all episodes are here
Anastasiya Krasovskaya topless in episode 1 of Feyk
Russian crime series
A cyberstalker starts stalking a high school teacher, Rita. The girl realizes that there are too many people around her who have good reasons to turn her life into a nightmare. He hits her where it hurts: work, students, friends, family, self-confidence. Rita tries to understand who this mysterious stalker is and what he wants. Going through and picking up the keys to her ex-boyfriend, students and colleagues, friends and even loved ones, Rita realizes that she can no longer trust anyone.
Francesca Dellera topless in The Teddy Bear (1999)
Johnny Moronic’s comments:
Another 90s movie, this time the 1994 French drama/thriller L’Ours en Peluche (The Teddy Bear) starring the effortlessly cool Alain Delon as a doctor/professor who is being accused of murdering one of his temp nurses who he briefly had an affair with. Feels more Italian than French and is strangely made in Belgium, but is very much in that 90s genre of French movie where an older guy becomes obsessed with a younger girl. Delon totally owns this movie as he sashays around trying to find who’s after him. The final standoff with the accuser is something that wouldn’t have been out-of-place in Le Samouraï. Not perfect by any stretch (that sex scene is absolutely laughable) but never not interesting and made better by Delon’s presence.
Johnny Moronic’s film clips are here.
Julia Schubert naked in episode 4 of Das Manko
Das Manko “The Flaws” is a four-part German comedy series set in the white-collar world. It is nearly dialogue-free.
The story centers on a group of office workers whose actual jobs are never quite clear and who exhibit a peculiarly intense herd mentality. If one person goes out for a smoke, everyone else follows suit in the far too small, glass-walled smoking room. Then, when the first one freaks out about the company announcement that it’s schnitzel day, everyone else follows like lemmings to the cafeteria.
The boss has HR consultants in-house who, after individual interviews with employees, recommend that he separate this group that is far too close-knit. However, the boss mixes up the two crucial files containing the names and chooses the weakest performers.
Reiko Ikeda in Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition and Torture (1973)
Japanewse martial arts action. Original title: Yasagure anego den: Sôkatsu rinchi (やさぐれ姐御伝 総括リンチ)
Gambling swordswoman Ochô allies with a gang of prostitutes forced by a Yakuza clan – whose boss has kidnapped the daughter of its previous lord – into smuggling drugs in their vaginas.
As the good lord intended.
