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After a lengthy, uptight discussion about the joys of sex with two aged
"experts", Hans Giese and Wolfgang Hochheimer, German writer and
popular sex educator Oswalt Kolle introduces us two stories that are
supposed to shed some light onto the topic of marital sex:
- Petra (Biggi Freyer) has never had fulfilling sex during all of her
(still young) marriage, and even the first premarital sex with her now
husband Thomas (Wilfrid Goessler) felt like little more than a rape -
and yet Petra loves her husband with all her heart. Thomas is
disappointed, frustrated, angry even when she first tells him, but
eventually he starts to understand ... and once he has grasped the
situation, they start having "good" sex.
- Claudia (Katarina Haertel) is a housewife and mother, and she has
been married to Martin (Régis
Vallée) for quite some years now, yet of late, he doesn't
seem to take much notice of her anymore, let alone have sex with her.
She though gets hornier by the hour - and eventually, she almost
cheats on him. Ultimately though, the two talk it over, and once he
understands, he takes her to the hotel where he deflowered her, and
they have sex in the very same room.
There is a theory that links these two stories, and Oswalt Kolle won't
spare us this: While men feel at the height of their sexuality shortly
after puberty and their lust starts to steadily decreasing from their
mid-20's onwards, women only start to build up their sexual desires after
puberty and reach their sexual heights much later in life, usually their
30's or so. But apparently, there's no problem a good talk won't solve ...
Risquée at its time, this film is today nothing short of hilarious:
Basically, The Miracle of Love is nothing short of straight
sexploitation but given a scientific background to be
"acceptable" to a mainstream audiences - even if the science
behind this film is nothing but a handful of commonplaces.
However, the pseudo-scientific background is what makes this movie all
the funnier: Oswalt Kolle's monotonous narration, his slightly embarrassed
attitude during the discussion at the beginning, the specialists'
discussion itself that's supposed to come off as spontaneous, and so on
and so forth.
This, coupled with the two simplistic stories and a few ridiculous
short scenes Kolle uses as examples to make his point make this film ...
on one hand embarrassingly old-fashioned even for its time, on the other
the perfect party movie!!!
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