At once a road film, a cautionary tale, and an autumnal romance, Nelly Kaplan’s freewheeling comedy—in which she cameoed as a fortune teller—cannot be pinned down. As a wildly absurd series of unfortunate events sends a working-class couple off course, love emerges as the greatest wealth of all.
An island populated by lusty temptresses might sound like the ultimate male fantasy. Under Nelly Kaplan’s satirical and surreal gaze, however, such paradise warps into men’s worst nightmare! Wielding erotic control over a serial Don Juan, the idyll’s sirens playfully subvert the rules of attraction.
Four years after Emmanuelle spawned a slew of sequels, Nelly Kaplan made her own adaptation of the erotic material, in which sexual precocity and intellectual curiosity go hand in hand. As ferociously feminist as the rest of the director’s oeuvre, this seductive tale stirs the mind and the senses.