Laura,
les ombres de l’ete (1979)
Director - David Hamilton
Writer - David Hamilton – Story
Joe Morhaim, Andre’ Szots
Starring - Maud Adams, Dawn Dunlap, James Mitchell, Pierre
Londiche, Thierry Redler, Maureen Kerwin, Gunilla Astrom,
Katia Kofet, Louisa Vincent, Luciano, Bill Millia
Review by Noel Baily
Forget Viagra..if you are over 40
with any sort of...er, "technical problem," LAURA
will fix you right up (as it were).
I've often wondered why David Hamilton hasn't been arrested!
The world's dirtiest old man - and he gets PAID for it!
Considered soft-core pornography when released,
Hamilton quickly sprang to his age-old defence.."But
this art chaps!" It sure IS! Pre-pubescent wannabe ballet
dancer Laura - she must be all of 14, stripping off, for her
MOTHER for God's sakes! - and performing multiple er, dance
moves? gymnastic workouts? whatever...for the camera....and
most every other paedophile in the Western world!
The "plotline" such that it isn't,
has James Mitchell as sculptor Paul Wyler, obviously playing
out Hamilton's own fantasies, who wants to sculpt Laura, as
he did her mother (OCTOPUSSY Bond girl Maud Adams, can you
believe?) 20 years earlier.
All
the Hamilton trademark shots - soft focus, young rear ends,
girls drying each other off in the showers, skipping down
the boardwalk, teenage nudity viewed every which way. God,
no wonder I like this flick! Seriously folks...art house fodder?
supposedly....but in the upshot, just sexploitation of very
young girls - and ALL in the name of "art" he did
it with BILITIS I'm SURE he did it here...pretty often too!
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