One of the more popular erotic imports of the 1960s, this Swedish portrait of the femme fatale as sexual adventurer offers an astonishingly open-minded perspective on female sexuality, both for the time it was made and now. Based on the autobiographical novel by Agnethe Thomsen (writing as Siv Holm), it stars the oddly beautiful Essy Persson as Siv, whose transition from restrained church-musician to sexually subversive nymphet is almost obsessively tracked by director Mac Ahlberg's camera (Ahlberg later moved to Hollywood and forged a successful career as a cinematographer). Siv is introduced in her liberal present as she coyly parades about a city sidewalk in a vir...
Released:
1965
Rated:
NR
Length:
95 mins