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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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