Somewhere on the Philippines: Photographer Nicholas (Al Cliver) meets
young and uninhibited preacher's daughter Laure (Annie Belle), and the two
soon fall in love, and even marry - but that doesn't stop her from showing
her fanny in public, sleeping around, and attending orgies on a
regular basis, and Nicholas doesn't only approve of it, he even encourages
it.
After much sex and more talking about it, Nicholas and Laure decide to
accompany professor Morgan (Orso Maria Guerrini) and his girlfriend Myrte
(Emmanuelle Arsan) - who is also the best friend of his wife (Michele
Starck), who approves of her hubbie's extramarital relationship - on his
expedition to the Mara, a lost tribe living somewhere in the Filipino
jungle, where at every summer solstice, several members of the tribe
gather, and in a ceremony, rather miraculously, they all lose their memory
and start a new life.
Our team of explorers even reaches the ceremonial ground of the Mara,
but once there, professor Morgan gets cold fet and decides they should
leave the Mara in peace and return to civilisation as they know it - which
they all do, all but Laure, who takes part in the ceremony, and on the
next day, she seems to have lost all her memory and thus her past life ...
I think.
Quite clearly, this is a film written by Emmanuelle Arsan (best known
for the books on which the Emmanuelle-series
is based), with Western characters in scenic Asian locations with notzhing
really to do rambling on endlessly about ridiculous philosophies about sex
while shagging around, but all the while the simple joys of sex seem
remarkably absent. This film, if anything, is even worse than the Emmanuelle-films,
a coherent plot is simply non-existent, all the sex and nudity - including
nude scenes by Arsan herself, who doesn't look bad at all naked -
gets tiring after a while since, as I said, the simple joy is missing, the
dialogue is nothing short of silly, and the expedition into the jungle
looks like nothing more than a day trip organized by an all-inclusive
tourist club.
There is really nothing to recommend this film, it's not even
so-bad-it's good.
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