Je brûle de partout (1979)

Alternate Titles
Dossiers mineures
Rapt de nymphettes

Susan Hemingway hooks up with a guy at a discoteque (GREAT disco scene!), has unwilling sex (Brigitte Lahaie joins in on the action) and is drugged and sold off to a “deluxe bordello” where a bunch of dirty, moaning girls are kept in a constant state of excitement by some sort of sex-gas that is pumped into their living quarters. This is film has almost non-stop softcore sex but is still interesting for a francophile due to the dark subject matter and claustrophobic, sweaty atmosphere. There is no happy sex in this film, only rape, perversion, sadism and unfulfilment (as usual in Franco’s world). Very low budget film, even by Franco’s standard, Franco does the best to cover up the absence of a budget, a descent crew and good locations with some interesting/eccentric camera work and angles. I liked it, but it’s almost impossible to discuss in terms of “good” and “bad” and I wouldn’t recommend to anybody who haven’t been bitten by the Franco bug.