This silly, mildly erotic soft-core item stars Valerie Kaprisky, well-known in America as Richard Gere's costar in BREATHLESS, as a virginal French girl who is one of a number of aristocrats on a Mediterranean island in 1914. Horst Buchholz plays an arms dealer (the setting is just before
the outbreak of WW I) who decides to stage a three-day reenactment of Pierre Louys' 1896 masterpiece of erotic literature,
Aphrodite, with his guests as the stars and the entire island as their stage. The reluctant Kaprisky, of course, is a natural for the role of love goddess Aphrodite. The
premise is an interesting one, but the filmmakers are concerned only with the eroti...
Released:
1982
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins