X-Rated
February, 1977
The earlier films of French director Barbet Schroeder (More and, more recently, Idi Amin Dada—A Self-Portrait) may be echoed in a line spoken by the heroine of his newest, a cheeky romantic comedy about, of all things, an S/M mistress and her men. "It's exciting to get into people's madness so intimately," says she, when pressed to explain her peculiar profession to a young hustler who falls in love with her after burgling her apartment—no ordinary Parisian flat, he discovers, but a pa...
