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Please hold on. Mister is busy but will soon come.

Anything you want, Madam.

Call me Madeleine.

Madeleine!

Madam has a tender heart.

But maybe she doesn't know my sex is huge.

Well, Antoine... Madam is not ready yet?

She will be ready soon, Sir. I'm preparing her.

The Golden Age of X

News

Good evening.

Naked France.

Yes. For months, Naked France has been stuck up on the walls of our cities.

Everywhere, women are nakedly exposed,

transformed in a vulgar object of consummation.

Pornography is no longer only about a few specialized movies or magazines, no.

Perfidious, it's sneaking in our everyday life.

This is not a new phenomenon. It's a consequence of May 68 havoc.

If it, luckily, failed politically,

it is now a devastating threat to our customs.

Hey, blind whore, show off!

Some of our elected men can't stand this downward slide and decided to react.

In fact, Mr Jean Royer, Mayor of Tours,

forbade a movie outrageous and dangerous for the youth.

Mr Royer took some initiatives that drew attention and started a polemic.

He forbade the screening of a movie in his city,

accusing it of harming morale and customs.

He also made a complaint against Jean-Paul Sartre,

head of a newspaper.

Mister Mayor, you took some measures and began war.

But what are you fighting, precisely?

To be precise, I'm against every form of pornography.

Either a tract, a book, a magazine, a movie...

so as to preserve human and social equilibrium.

We must be sure tidiness is respected,

as we are doing in the city of Tours.

Because the youth you can see here,

at the Stade Nautique Du Lac,

must be prepared to find an ideal of living.

It must be prepared to a sane love.

We must not show them derangements of love,

that is, needless to say, superior to copulation,

before it has its own experience.

On the same topic, the publication of The Manifesto of the 343,

in Le Nouvel Observateur, keep creating tumult.

Supported by some left-wing figures such as Simone De Beauvoir,

Jeanne Moreau or Gisèle Halimi,

the manifesto demands the legalization of abortion.

Abroad now,

massive pacifist protestations took place in the USA.

More than 500.000 persons, mainly hippies,

walked in Washington and demanded the end of the war.

François Jouffa, journalist, director of La Bonzesse in 1973,

decrypts for us the utopia of this weird, long-haired generation.

It's pop (popular) and underground culture

coming from a world-wide juvenile movement, especially Anglo-Saxon.

We can say this culture arrived in France

between, let's say 71 and...

1975, to keep it simple.

There was a incredible lead weight on our customs,

imposed by hypocrite rulers.

General De Gaulle, either you like or dislike his political actions,

had ideas and morale from another century.

The same applies for his customs and social ideas.

His wife, especially, who people called "Aunt Yvonne",

made sure he always kept that line.

It will sound incredible today, but it was a scandal

when a woman like Brigitte Bardot, invited to the Elysée,

came with a two-piece suit and trousers.

Divorced or soon-to-be-divorced couples were not accepted at the Elysée.

It sounds like I'm talking about the 17th Century but that's how it was.

The last news is a sad one.

We just heard about the death of Jean Villard, figure of French stages.

Please spend a good evening on our channel.

Don't miss "A armes égales" next.

Our guests will be Georges Marchais and Jacques Chirac, the youngest Primer Minister.

You're depicted as an ambitious youngster but you actually are behind times.

You think like people did 40 years ago.

40 years ago!

To hear that from a Leninist! What a joke!

40 years ago! The man with a knife in his mouth.

News

Good evening.

In West Germany, more members of the Red Army Faction have been arrested.

For two years, the terrorist tried to force with violence

the liberation of their leader, Andreas Baader

France.

Unfounded rumors say that President George Pompidou

suffers from a serious illness.

Jacques Chirac, Minister of Agriculture,

was in Corrèze to give the award for the best calf's head.

He reassured the journalists.

I am a nymphomaniac.

I'm frigid, why?

You understand, dear audience,

that these are no confessions of mine but titles of questionable movies.

To these top-level productions,

you can add a wave of sexy movies, also called "Mondo movies",

coming from Scandinavia, Italy and West Germany.

Their plots barely change.

A woman discovers the pleasure of the flesh by becoming strip-teaser of model.

To face this invasion, it was about time public powers reacted.

Now, a report by Philippine Lessage.

We shall note that in 1974, in the Parisian area only,

these movies cumulated more than 6.000.000 spectators.

We can reasonably say that those shocked by the poster campaigns

are a good part of these spectators.

Nobody can pretend without hypocrisy a city can be happy without sex.

A show based on suggestive or skilfully uncovered flesh

is not, when we think about it,

an aggression more serious than others excesses frequently committed

all over the world, such as violence, war or injustice.

Jean Rollin, master of French bis cinema,

analyses the consequences of the massive incoming of eroticism in our theaters.

There was a time in the 70's

I was forced to stop making B movies,

fantastic movies, vampire movies, etc...

Because the X had arrived.

Yes! The subjects...

Well, a few bad subjects of Her Gracious Majesty

flooded the market of pornography with 8mm and Super 8, the amateur format.

They will produce up to 100 movies per month.

Then, Danish and German will come with colors and close-ups.

But the French quality got lost.

- I have a surprise to console you. - Really?

The most clandestine of clandestine movies.

In colors. And with sound!

An authentic amateur movie.

At the time, most of them where German movies. I remember improbably movies.

German and Spanish.

And that's when a figure began to rise: Jess Franco.

There was...

I remember an incredible movie.

The title was "The girl with tight hips" a German movie.

There was sort of an incredible heroin, very...

full of...

voluptuous, but huge!

A sort of big fat German Bertha.

She acted in this movie with her incredible blond hair.

What do you think of femininity?

All of a sudden, everything we were supposed not to show in a movie

had to be seen in our movies.

I mean, I remember looking for hours...

There was a couple making love in a car.

It was before the X. And...

It was very complicated. We tried for hours to find an axis and an angle

so as to film the couple without their sexes being seen.

It was terrible it you could see one!

But censorship was keeping an eye out.

Maurice Druon, Minister of Cultural Affairs,

Pronounce the interdiction of François Jouffa's La Bonzesse.

Since the end of the 60's, local theaters are screening films

where men and women, completely naked, mimic scenes in bed.

But the so-called traditional cinema is not outdone.

Remember movies such as Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris

or Marco Ferreri's La grande bouffe

that created a scandal when screened in Cannes Festival.

Our youngest directors also took part in these scabrous activities.

What about Bertrand Blier's Going Places?

Or the lustful conversations in Jean Eustache's The mother and the whore.

Good end of evening.

Don't miss next "Le secret Des flamands"

with Jean-Claude Dauphin

and a young promising novice, Isabelle Adjani.

News

Good evening.

Richard Nixon announced yesterday he resigns from the presidency of the USA.

Jacques Chirac, our Prime Minister,

commented the event by stating that: "In politics, lies don't pay".

A mysterious source, Deep Throat,

was the starting point of the revelations of the Watergate.

Deep Throat probably doesn't ring a bell to you, dear audience. It's a codename

and a reference to a pornographic movie

that was a huge success in the USA last year.

Linda Lovelace, the main actress,

gives herself to buccal achievements worthy of Pinder Circus.

Decency won't let me describe them for you.

Francis Mischkind, producer, distributor and cinema manager,

is one of the pioneer of French erotic cinema.

He will reveal for us Deep Throat's behind the scenes secrets.

I think Deep Throat is a magical encounter of three elements.

First, a time. We're at then end of the "Flower People" period.

Every taboos have to be exterminated.

Including sexual taboos, indeed.

The magical encounter of Gerard Damiano

and a woman named Linda Boreman.

Gerard Damiano was actually a hairdresser.

But he loved cinema and was shooting loops,

small clandestine movies

He had met Linda Boreman for one of these loops,

and had been astonished by the buccal potential of that lady.

That's how came the idea of...

convincing her associate, Parreno, a name you can't make up.

Parreno was to finance the movie because Damiano had only 5.000$

and needed 20.000$ more.

On top of that, Gerard Damiano did dare... How could I say?

Sign the movie Gerard Damiano because the Italian makes a bad impression.

He preferred Jerry Gerard because it was more Hollywoodian.

The story is totally extraordinary.

When the movie was released it was tasteful to go watch it.

The whole American intelligentsia: Warren Beatty, Frank Sinatra...

They all went to watch the movie.

Your clitoris is there, deep inside your throat!

Calm down, Miss Lovelace, the situation is not helpless.

A clitoris in the throat is better than no clitoris at all!

Easy for you to say!

What if you had a penis in each ear?

I would listen to myself making love!

The story of the movie is extraordinary.

Remember that Gerard Damiano made a movie with 25.000$

and the movie earned 600.000$ just in theaters!

For 10 years,

it stayed in the Top 10 American box-office.

All genres included. Star Wars & Co.

It's fabulous.

Give me a cigarette please.

Thank you.

Can I have a smoke?

While you're eating.

Of course, go ahead.

In France, we have no Deep Throat but Les Jouisseuses and Emmanuelle.

They are beating records for this kind of movies.

Now, a report by our journalist Anna Conda

interviewing for us Claudia Zanthe, the movie star.

Could you tell us the title of your movie? I dare not say it.

- Which one? - The last one.

The last one? The last one was The Fiddlers.

The Fiddlers. And before that?

Before... I think The Joyful.

What else was there?

I'll help you. You like my wife, I love yours.

Yeah! You like my wife, I love yours.

I think there was The wet pussies.

The wet pussies. What else?

Forbidden during the presidency of George Pompidou,

Emmanuelle was finally released and largely advertised.

It was screened in 17 theaters in Paris only.

16.000 persons watched Just Jaeckin's movie on the first day

of its exploitation.

They should soon be a million.

Lucien Hustaix's Les Jouisseuses

Met a large audience in provinces.

80.000 tickets sold in Boulogne, 100.000 in Lille,

44.000 in Bordeaux, 50.000 in Rouen,

and, more surprising, 25.000 in Marmande

where only 15.000 inhabitants live.

In Perpignan, it was impossible to find a hotel room from Friday to Monday.

Hordes of Spanish spectators crossed the border

to attend to screening of smuttinesses forbidden in their country.

Jean-François Davy, producer and director,

tells us about his start in adult cinema.

Then we thought...

"Well, something is trendy nowadays: eroticism."

We saw Pécas and Bénazéraf's movies

and they had a good amount of spectators.

Even though we were still far from pornography.

Then we thought...

"If we can make films"

"thanks to the eroticism we put in it... why not?"

Also there was, for me and some of my friends,

the desire to debase ourselves.

And a will of transgression too.

So there was a mix of pure intention from young directors

of 20, 21 year-old.

But there was also the desire to come up to something...

Yes, transgress a taboo.

I hope you all enjoyed it as much as you could.

There was no time to rest for our crew.

We wanted more than anything to bring you the latest news,

with images and informations.

That will be done in 15 minutes.

News

Ladies and gentlemen, good evening.

One year after his election, we can look back on

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing presidency.

Elected for his promise to help French customs evolve,

our President kept his promise.

Lowering of legal age to 18, splitting of the ORTF,

liberalization of abortion, promotion of women's rights,

and, finally, suppression of cinematographic censorship.

I think we must distinguish two problems: censorship and aid.

You know, censorship have always been an inefficient action.

And questionable, because it's very difficult to determine the criterion.

Also, the criterion change from an era to another.

There were scandals in the past

the criticism of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs Du Mal,

the trial of Flaubert for Madame Bovary...

I don't support censorship.

Michel Guy, State Secretary for Culture,

announced after the election of the President, quotes:

"Every movies must be released without distinction."

"I have no right to forbid adult spectators..."

"the possibility to watch the movies they want."

As a result, in 1974, 128 erotic movies

added up to 6 millions spectators in Paris and its suburbs only.

It represented 16% of that year total.

But erotic cinema was instantly left behind.

On the 23 of April was released Anthology of Pleasure.

First movie of a new kind called "hardcore" in the USA.

Sex scenes are not simulated anymore but shown in close-ups.

We are in 1974 and Giscard promises

the suppression of every kind of cinematographic censorship.

It was more than we hoped for.

With our erotic movies, very soft eroticism,

the commission for cinematographic control couldn't go against

the evolution of the customs

and some kind of addiction.

It had to validate more and more movies.

So we managed to create customers loyalty

because they knew they were going to see more and more.

We ended up with a pile of erotic movies.

But they were all way too soft and were already out-dated.

So we had to rush to shoot hardcore close-ups.

We used these scenes to spice up the movies and called that "caviaring".

And only then we presented them as...

this kind of movies.

So, bastard, will you get a hard-on or what?

I'm waiting for you! Aren't you coming?

Let go of me, bitch! Let go!

1975 is the Great Year but also the Fatal Year.

During that year,

As fa as I was concerned, there was Family jewels,

co-produced with Vincent Malle, brother of Louis Malle.

The control commission suggested a total ban of the movie.

Michèle Guy, Minister for Culture, on very last decision-maker,

gave an exploitation visa "as is".

1975 is the year Os release of Anthology of Pleasure,

more than 200.000 viewers in Paris.

Sex Fairground also made more than 200.000 entries in Paris.

Exhibition was a hit with more than 500.000 viewers in Paris.

No, go ahead.

Cannes Film Festival.

While Chronicle of the Years of Fire and The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser are favorite

the Croisette is only talking about one movie.

Selected in the category "Perspectives of French Cinema",

Exhibition, directed by Jean-François Davy,

tell the confession of a porn actress, Claudine Beccarie,

disconcerting in her own role, it would seem.

174, first.

My career is kind of linked to the evolution of eroticism in cinema.

I think that If I had to begin with porn movie

which mean non-simulated intercourses,

I may not have been a film-maker.

But it has been done step-by-step.

That's how we met Claudine Beccarie.

She arrived with an Aeropagus of friends.

She suggested her own sister to be her partner.

We were totally fascinated by...

the personage and...

her eloquence, her way of talking...

her natural.

Claudine's interview.

Claudine, you're an actress.

We took a 16mm camera.

And we made a documentary about...

behind the scene and shooting of this huge scene of orgy.

With non-simulated intercourses.

During lunch break I was sitting with Beccarie.

We chatted and I listened to her. I was fascinated by her eloquence.

I asked her: "Do you mind if I film you?"

"If I interview you after lunch."

She said: "Not at all."

- Mom? - Yes?

Let me introduce you to Jean-François.

- Hello Madam. - Hello Sir.

I want to suck you so bad.

May I?

- This is a young girl's bed. - Absolutely.

I never had one.

I mean I had one in pension.

But we all had the same. Nothing extraordinary.

Move your hips at the same time.

And touch your breast to make your nipples harder.

- Me? - Yeah. - I hate that.

I know men dream of that. But I hate that.

We don't use nipples to do this kind of thing.

- No, it's... - And it's unsightly.

- No, it just need to be... - You are a pervert!

- It's perverse. - Go on, it's rolling.

Cannes' "Quinzaine Des réalisateurs"

asked to see the movie.

They watch it and seem horrified.

3 days later, they call me back and say...

The movie has been selected for the "Quinzaine Des Réalisateurs".

I think we should stage it.

I was speechless!

I couldn't see how a pornographic movie could be selected

in a selection of arty movies.

Not like that. We need to see you work.

The camera is this way.

I'm sorry but that's a problem.

You now, Claudine...

You would be a perfect brother madam.

I thought: "Something big is happening."

It was beyond me. It was a society phenomenon.

Eventually, the film was screened in Cannes. It was...

It was an outcry... An outcry and a plebiscite. Everything was mixed.

UGC wanted to distribute it.

And it was a huge success.

The film had 3.5 millions of spectators.

In France only.

News

Dear audience, good evening.

First of all, the editorial board joins me

to wish you a good year 1976.

The year has a good start, since the government

finally decided to resolve the problem of pornography.

Deputies had been debating for months in the Assembly.

A first decree from the 31 October 1975

already tried to regulate this specific industry.

Facing left-wing press and professional pressure,

the decree was canceled.

But its dispositions have been reused in the financial law 75-12-78,

from the 30 December 1975,

also called "X law".

Now, some explanations from Michel Guy,

Secretary of State for Culture, interviewed by Catherine Bitchy.

We found...

some measures...

not only for taxes...

increase of VAT to 33%, as you know, for these movies.

Also, and maybe more important,

a charter for auto-discipline from the professionals.

They promised to screen these movies only in specific theaters

and specific places.

They will avoid, and it was fundamental,

cities were there are only 2 theaters and freedom of will is non-existent.

Here are the main measures adopted.

Films rated X are forbidden to less than 18 year-old audience.

The VAT rate on these movies is increased to 33%.

Another tax of 20%

will be applied on rated-X films' benefits.

A new tax of 300.000 Fr

will be mandatory for any imported movie.

Theaters specialized in screenings of rated-X movies

can receive no subvention.

Just after this law, the 3 main French distributors

UGC, Pathé and Gaumont,

decided to stop distributing pornographic movies.

Only ParaFrance challenged the law.

You must know that the law that was voted

was totally different from what Michel Guy wanted to do.

As I told you, he never was coercive,

but rather incentive.

As soon as a ghetto of specialized theaters was in place...

As soon as the professionals

had the intelligence to stay in this ghetto...

And, most important, stopped kicking a fuss about politics...

The administrative supervisors

until the end of this period

until 1982, 1981-1982,

they never tried to knew what was happening is this ghetto.

Let me introduce you to Arnold.

Pleased to meet you, Arnold!

Butler, cook, handyman... Arnold has a permanent erection.

Since this poor man got struck...

- Struck? - Yes, he was masturbating in his countryside.

He became mute. But, on the other hand...

His hard-on never ended. Arnold, you can leave us now.

Let's have diner now. I'm hungry!

- Please have a seat. - Yes, good idea.

News

But I... Okay.

Good evening.

Introduced by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing as "the best French economist",

Primer Minister Raymond Barre is publishing his plan against inflation,

an endemic illness, eating into French economy.

As for his predecessor, Jacques Chirac,

everybody is wondering about his future plans since he resigned last summer.

If his political friends remain optimistic,

most of the specialists consider his future in politics is compromised.

We thought the polemic about censorship was over.

But the porno is stubborn.

Two films revive the debate.

First, Nagisa Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses.

Considered by some persons an erotic masterpiece, it was not rated X.

On the other hand, John Thomas' (Serge Korber) Love Play

threatened to be destroyed.

Double standards? An investigation by Jules Putitin.

What they show is filthy! Filthy!

I went to the library. Let me tell you how shameful was what I saw.

It's shameful even for men!

Most of the time, when there are filthy movies, I call them filthy,

It's old persons that go watch them!

Madam Bouteiller, Secretary of Montreuil's Elders' Club,

required the movie to burn burnt because, quotes...

"We see, I heard, exchange of partners and people licking each others."

So, double standards?

Sylvia Bourdon, through her acting performances,

denounces the censors' hypocrisy.

It's true Sylvia Bourdon

consumed sex and men just like that.

Just like a man who would like to fuck as many woman as possible.

Some girls liked it.

Girls like Catherine Millet, at that time...

They liked sex, went to orgies...

They were delighted to shoot porno.

They were big consumers.

And... and that's all.

But it was not the majority. The majority was looking for money.

Some of them hoped to make it as a real comedian.

But the only one that, I think, succeeded is Brigitte Lahaie.

Louis-Philippe always told me his parents didn't want him to go to college.

- A place of perdition. Of perversion. - Calm down, Madam. That's why I here.

- Call me Madelaine. - Madelaine!

I am Madelaine. You can call me Madelaine.

On my first day of shooting porn,

I had had something like 2 lovers.

So I was still some kind of virgin.

And I was... rather worried. Timid and inhibited.

And actually...

The moment I felt the camera shooting me

I had some kind of...

Real excitement. And that's why, of course,

a psychoanalyst would say I'm an exhibitionist.

Probably just like every timid person, by the way.

I knew the golden age of X.

But when I started the law X had just been voted.

So there was still limited budgets.

I performed between 76 and 80. We were shooting in 35mm.

I stopped when video arrived.

But there were already financial problems at the time.

Movies had to be profitable.

I was able to see the evolution.

At first, shootings lasted for 2 weeks. Then one week.

In the end it was more 3 or 4 days.

At that time, there were stories.

They were women liberating themselves from bourgeoisie, from their husbands.

They showed they could have lovers too and have sexual pleasure.

Ladies and gentlemen!

Let me introduce you to my wife, Hélène!

- What a beauty! - How pretty!

I never saw such a thing!

The most important for me was to feel free.

I remember shooting I'm Yours to Take,

by Francis Leroi, one of my best film

and one of the best X.

Honestly, it was a real pain!

Because he...

He told me: "I want this... And that!"

And I didn't care. I was like...

"He has sex, what does he want more?"

I didn't... I didn't...

I admit today he was right and I am good to see in this movie.

My darling...

What's your name?

I'm Paul.

I have several good memories with my partners.

Someone like Stéphane Allan.

- Make yourself comfortable. - Wait, how much do you want?

- Do worry, we'll see later. - Really?

What do you want us to do?

- It depends on the price. - What a pain with his prices!

We'll see later. Tell us what you want. We have others things to do, darling.

Well, I don't know. I'd like you to blow me.

They were agreeable men.

We had good relationships, other than sexual.

There were no...

There were no conflicts. Everything was okay.

In the end I, globally,

have memories of a nice and informal atmosphere.

Bull's balls.

Stuffed eifer's vagina

Goat's testicles à la provençale.

We would talk about our week-ends during breaks.

I think it is incomparable to what's happening nowadays.

In addition to Brigitte Lahaie,

France had had national stars such as

Marilyn Jess.

But also Martine Grimaud, Véronique Maugarski, Julia Perrein...

Diane Dubois, Morgane, Cathy Stewart and many more!

I can't name them all, there were too numerous!

But I have to name the famous Musketeers who were...

Richard Allan, nicknamed concrete-dick,

he deserved his nickname,

Dominique Aveline,

Alban Ceray, Jean-Pierre Armand... A whole era!

What became of them?

Richard Allan makes erotic sweets in Normandy.

Dominique Aveline produces wine in Médoc.

Alban Ceray spends a well-deserved retirement in Monaco.

Jean-Pierre Armand, the 4.000 movies man, is still shooting.

And Cyril Val is now making art.

I didn't want...

to show off saying...

The curator of the Museum of Eroticism

was a pioneer of erotic cinema in France.

I was suffering from a pathological timidity.

Let me introduce myself.

Pleased to meet you.

We were a family, a tribe. We were all united.

I was actually very prudish.

There was no... There was no real vulgarity.

We used... not chosen words...

but respectful words.

At that time, we always asked the girls

what they wanted to do and with who.

I thought is was a good way to...

disrupt the established orders.

That's it. I was an intellectual.

There criterion, if there was one,

was the join a team of friends.

Denise owns a night-club she qualifies as "fucking".

She don't tell her place is for orgies or partner swapping.

Denise's place is very specific.

It's very famous by the way.

The persons that meet there

are stars from cinema and television,

sportsmen, politics...

It has its own universe/

And Denise is a singular person.

- Good evening. - Good evening.

Everybody told me...

"It would be nice to have a place just for us."

"We could go there to party and such things."

I thought about it and thought they were right.

"it would be nice to create my swinger's club."

"A festive one."

Of course, I met

all the actors from our industry.

Richard Lemieuvre, Alain Plumey and so on.

And Richard offered me to go to a shooting.

It was the next week.

I wasn't too motivated because I was working in a public office.

So I said: "No, you know, I'm not really motivated."

But eventually I went there. It was a shooting by Alain Payet.

I went there and shot one hardcore scene with him.

And I thought the atmosphere was really nice.

It was not a business like it is nowadays. We really had fun.

We laughed. It was a party. An orgy.

For people like me, exhibitionists,

the thought of men going to obscure theaters

to masturbate themselves while watching me...

was even more exciting!

I have one funny memory during a shooting because

the cameraman said: "Shit, I'm out or reel!"

"Can you wait a minute?" We were in the middle of actions.

So we went on slowly. And all of a sudden...

They saw I was going to come.

"Quick! Quick! The camera!" Everybody was rushing to the camera.

A squirting chewing-gum?

Fantastic!

Bite it and refresh your breath with the squirt.

Fresher breath with Freshen-up!

The squirting chewing-gum.

News

Ladies and gentlemen, good evening.

The right-wing keeps the majority despite the worrying first round.

The left-wing pays for the rupture of its union.

Jacques Chirac's brand new RPR comes first with 150 seats.

He declared that this results proves the failure of, quotes...

"Politicians ready to every contortions to be elected."

After 2 years and many unforeseen developments,

Jean-François Davy's Exhibition 2 is released in a largely revised version.

Despite several interdictions from the commission, the movie received a visa.

Now, a report from Gaston DaPounder.

The most significant consequence of the law X

is the lightning augmentation of national productions.

In fact, the tax on foreign movies

gave all the way to French producers

whose movies share 85% of the tickets sold.

However, this marginal cinema

who reached its apogee in 1975

is enjoying a renewed success nowadays.

News

Good evening.

The opposition will file a vote of no confidence against Mauroy's politic.

The right-wing is against the bill draft from the Minister of the Economy Delors,

about the freeze of prices and wages.

This measure seems to call for austerity.

At the same time, it could be the end of socialists' ideals

incapable of facing the reality of power.

Jacques Chirac, mayor of Paris,

judges that one has to abandon a reform based on a bad idea.

The election of François Mitterrand and the nomination of Jack Lang for Culture

aroused serious worries for anti-porno activists.

But these worries were quickly cleared up by Jack Lang's first measures.

He is determined to reinforce the struggle against production companies.

We have all been a sensible child once.

Some images can be very hurtful

or be very offensive to young girls or boys.

We, as public authorities,

our role is... to...

protect to youngest.

But once they become well-prepared and well-informed

they will be ready to face every kind of images and sounds.

Either from life or from television.

As a consequence, the industry is turning to video.

In fact, the massive increasing of VCR sells

made possible the exploitation of X movies on VHS.

Now an investigation by Romain Isnotsoft.

To give you an idea, over the 80 erotic and porno movies we have,

only 2 or 3 are funny.

Now people want porno and fun. Maybe its their alibi.

Maybe it's easier to watch too.

Because a video of people making love for an hour and half...

- It's boring. - You don't watch the whole thing/

Personally, I don't.

Most of the time, little ghost-writing businesses

are behind these movies.

Nice first-quality lot!

But it depends on the aesthetic quality of the movie, or rather its absence.

These are company of exploitation.

Exploitation of the actors.

But also exploitation of human misery.

The video, the apparition of the video,

made such a exposure possible.

Its development really began thanks videos from the 80's.

Screenplays have always been highly important to me.

My principle is that cinema is a dream factory

and our films are fantasy factories.

Look!

In example, my collaboration with Bertrand De Bary was

important for our screenplays.

We used to begin with a starting idea and develop it.

Madam has a tender heart.

But maybe she doesn't know my sex is huge.

You're out of your mind. I will tell my husband.

Don't, Madam, I'm begging you. I will blow jerk myself off.

Everything was shot in a universe of easy, wealthy life.

In this context,

we could say the pornography was bourgeois.

So it seemed respectable.

Please hold on. Mister is busy but will soon come.

So we kept it in a nice atmosphere and in appropriate places.

We didn't do politics and stayed in our ghetto. We were reasonable.

So we had a nice bourgeois pornography.

But Francis Leroi once reproached that to me. He was a libertarian.

Well, Antoine... Madam is not ready yet?

She will be ready soon, Sir. I'm preparing her.

Come with me, Fanny.

This is called "to tongue".

"To lick". "To muff dive".

Or "do a rose leaf".

The mouth has to be on the lips, as you can see now.

The girl thus gets wet and gets ready for further insertions.

So, Darling. Isn't Antoine a great servant?

At the time, there was a real zest for life during the shootings.

A joy of giving pleasure.

A kind of altruism.

Joy of having pleasure.

A kind of hedonism.

Everything was done in joy.

We were really groups of friends gathering

to have enjoyable sex

in sincere joy.

This period, all this period, was called

the golden age of French X.

If this period was a golden age, it was also because

everything was natural!

Girls had natural breasts, not fake.

They had natural hairs, they were not shaved.

They were having a good time. It was not chargeable performances.

They just wanted to have and give pleasure.

My farewell to production was

the most expensive X movie made so far,

Initiation of a Married Woman.

There were 36 actresses and actors.

That was Bertrand De Bary's last movie.

That was Alpha France's last movie.

With this movie, both of them

wanted to let a magnificent landmark event.

The end of the golden age.

The end

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