Femme (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Femme |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1984 |
| length | 74 minutes |
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| Director | R. Lauren Niemi |
| script | Candida Royalle |
| production | Candida Royalle |
| music | Henry Cussion, Phil Goetz, Armando Macchiavelli |
| camera | Maryse Alberti , Leslie Hankey |
| cut | Erich von Bild |
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Femme is an American hardcore porno by the director R. Laura Niemi . He is the first of Candida Royalle and Niemi with her company Femme Productions produced the film and is considered the first feminist porn.
action
The film is subtitled Created by women for people who love . It is a compilation of six music video- style scenes in which two or three protagonists encounter each other in different environments and come to have sex. The individual scenes almost entirely dispense with dialogues.
- Rock Erotica : The fan Tish Ambrose and the rock musician Michael Knight meet in a dark, narrow staircase, probably the backstage area of a stage. After passionate foreplay, they have fellatio and anal intercourse ;
- TV Idol : Sharon Kane lies on the bed and watches a soap opera on TV with actor Klaus Multia and spokeswoman Candida Royalle, not shown in the picture. Multia appears in the set and they both have sex. It seems to be a representation of a fantasy, because at the end of the scene Kane is lying alone on the bed and Multia can be seen again in a close-up on the TV picture. The music comes from Philip Goetz;
- Gallery : Carol Cross meets George Payne and Michael Knight as a visitor to a picture gallery . On parallel montages , which show Carol alternately dressed with one of the male actors looking at the paintings and naked during sex, the scene ends with the depiction of all three actors during intercourse in the gallery;
- Photo Session : Rhonda Jo Petty models the photographer Jerry Butler in his studio. Music: Armando Macchiavelli;
- Sales Pitch : Sharon Kane meets cosmetics saleswoman Rhonda Jo Petty. Music: Henry Cussion;
- The Dressing Room : Carol Cross is alone in a dressing room, naked, looking at herself in the mirror. David Sandler arrives and they both have sex. Music: Armando Macchiavelli.
background
Candida Royalle entered the porn business at the age of 25 in 1975 and appeared in around 25 hardcore porn films. At the beginning of the 1980s, she last appeared as an actress and moved behind the scenes. She wrote the screenplays for several mainstream porn, and this was followed by first the traditional and focused on the male audience style: The man and the male consumers are the focus, act the male actor, the film and individual scenes control on the final cumshot out , The female performers are objects of male satisfaction and are selected and depicted according to these phantasies, close-ups of sex organs (meat shots) are almost always included, a structured plot is unnecessary.
Dissatisfied with the products of the porn industry, Royalle founded her own production company, Femme Productions, in 1984 . In doing so, she said she wanted to show three things: that it is possible to produce hardcore porn in a decent way, that porn does not have to be sexist , and that porn can enrich life. Royalle intended to produce porn films that are geared towards the needs of female consumers or that couples watch together. Your partner was R. Lauren Niemi , a photographer from the Midwest of the United States , the erotic music videos wanted to produce for women. Femme was Niemi's and Royalle's first porno and is considered the first feminist porno film in film history . Royalle usually did not refer to her films as porn but as erotica .
distribution
The marketing of the film was also based on Niemis and Royalle's goals. The cover of the video does not show any naked actresses or sexual organs in close-up, as is typical for the genre, but rather the close-up of the faces of a couple. The highlighted name Candida Royalle and the title Femme are signed Created by women for people who love (in the re-release on DVD Fantasies for couples who dare ).
Royalle's quest for a new form of pornography geared towards the needs of a female target group met with rejection from the established structures of the porn industry. It was only after long negotiations that VCA Pictures found a distributor for Femme and the two subsequent films Urban Heat (1984) and Christine's Secret (1986). The strips were released with little marketing or promotion effort and became a huge success. In 1986 Royalle and her then husband Per Sjöstedt bought back the rights to the three films and brought them into their own distribution, Femme Distribution . After separating from Sjöstedt, Royalle gave up sales and transferred it to Adam & Eve , one of the most important companies in the US porn industry. In contrast to the usual mass-produced porn film, which remains on sale for a few months and is then forgotten forever, Femme , like the later films by Femme Productions, is still available today and finds buyers. Femme was re-released on DVD in 2004.
reception
Norma Ramos, the spokeswoman for the anti-pornography movement's hugely influential activist group Women Against Pornography , said it doesn't matter if a woman is behind the camera. Royalles' films, like all other films in the genre, would reduce women to body parts. Pornography eroticizes the inequality of women. She is prostitution on paper and celluloid .
In 2004, on the occasion of the launch of an anniversary edition, Don Houston found for XCritic that Femme had never made the Adult Video News charts , but that her realistic sex was a breath of fresh air for those who were different from today's "Barbies" wanted to see the porn industry. Houston felt a recommendation for couples for whom porn was something new was justified.
The website pornmoviesforwomen.com wrote in connection with Femme that Candida Royalle treats her performers with respect and takes special care of women. Femme is realistic eroticism with taste and show the secret fantasies of women. Femme show the secret of female lust as only a woman can show it.
literature
- Peter Alilunas: Smutty Little Movies. The Creation and Regulation of Adult Video . University of California Press, Oakland 2016, ISBN 978-0-520-29170-6 ;
- Candida Royalle: Porn in the USA . In: Drucilla Cornell (ed.): Feminism and Pornography . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2000, ISBN 0-19-878250-0 .
Web links
- Femme in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Alilunas: Smutty Little Movies , pp. 141-144.
- ↑ Peter Alilunas: Smutty Little Movies , pp. 144–146.
- ↑ Candida Royalle: Porn in the USA . In: Social Text , No. 37, Winter 1993, A Special Section Edited by Anne McClintock Explores the SexTrade , pp. 23-32, JSTOR 466257 .
- ↑ a b Peter Alilunas: Smutty Little Movies , pp. 146-148.
- ^ Constance Penley: Candida Royalle, 1950-2015 . In: Film Quarterly , Vol. 69, No. 2, pp. 77-80, doi : 10.1525 / FQ.2015.69.2.77 .
- ↑ a b Candida Royalles 80s Titles , film review on pornmoviesforwomen.com, 2014; accessed on December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Don Houston: Candida Royalle's Femme , XCritic website, December 27, 2004, accessed December 26, 2018.