Hot Stuff

January, 1976

The explosion of porno chic in France partly explains the mad success, over there, of Exhibition--a success echoed over here, since director Jean-François Davy's quasi documentary about the on- and offscreen life of a Parisian porn queen became the first unabashed sex movie ever to be billed as a main attraction at the cool, cultish New York Film Festival. "The public wants fuck scenes," declares Claudine Beccarie, a slender 30-year-old brunette who may be France's answer to Linda Love...