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Mr Mann (Alan Marlow) is worried that his wife Pamela (Barbara Bourbon)
is fooling around a bit - she's usually unattended during the afternoons,
she's very social, and she's unpredictable. So he hires surveillance
specialist Frank (Eric Edwards) to follow her around a bit to see what
she's up to - and it turns out, Mr Mann has every reason to be worried: On
the footage Frank returns with, Pamela can be seen blowing a stranger in
the park, enjoying (!) a rape, doing social work on a hooker (Georgina
Spelvin) - which consists of lesbian sex of course - and having sex with a
political candidate (Sonny Landham) right before his speech at a
fundraiser. Thing is, Mann has all reason to be worried, he simply isn't,
instead he asks Frank to find out what makes his wife tick ... so Frank
pays her a visit - that results in passionate sex, and Frank falling in
love with her ... which leads to Frank resigning from the case for
overstepping a line. Mann returns to his wife who's presently reviewing
all the (porn-)material Frank has taken of her and various lovers. She's
enjoying it, too, and so is her husband, and soon the two have passionate
sex. Turns out the two of them have only set up the whole situation
because they get off by setting up things like this - and once they're
done enjoying each other, Mann (with Pamela in earshot of course) hires
another private investigator to "spy" after his wife. More
than most contemporaries of similar ilk, The Private Afternoons of
Pamela Mann feels like hardcore porn from a long-gone era - not
because it looks awfully dated, quite the contrary actually, but because
it feels like an actual movie, with a properly told story where the sex
scenes (numerous and explicit as they might be) take back seat to the
narrative, the camerawork shows style and taste (while never shying away
from private parts and bodily fluids that is), the actors actually act
when they're not having sex, the dialogue is poignant without being overly
vulgar, and some of the jokes (most of all the running gag about the poll
girl [Doris Toumarkine] popping up in the least likely places to
"give the movie some sociopolitical relevance") are rather
hilarious. So yeah, I liked this one, and if there were mor porn flicks
like it (especially in today's gonzo-era) the genre might be a whole lot
more interesting ...
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