Roberto Bisacco

Alain Resnais immerses himself in the shadowy and macabre world of the 1930s French aristocracy for his 1970s biographical drama, Stavisky. Romantic, even elegiac, and very much stalked by death, this game of deception stars the legendary New Wave star Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Criticized as purely pornographic in the newly X-rated world of 1969, Radley Metzger’s Camille 2000 is an erotic tale adapted from Alexandre Dumas. It also works as a campy melodrama, a chic piece of 60s pop art, and a provocateur’s test of the new freedoms of cinema.