Programmed for Pleasure
26 December 2020
La femme-objet (1981)

*** 1/2 (out of 4)

Nicolas (Richard Allan) is a science fiction writer who has an insane need for sex. He will take sex from pretty much any woman but he has yet to find exactly what he desires. This leads him into creating a female robot (Marilyn Jess) who is programed to give him his ultimate desires.

LA FEMME-OBJET comes from writer-director Claude Mulot who messed around in several genres in his short career. This includes horror (THE BLOODY ROSE), sexploitation (SINS OF THE FLESH) and hardcore. He has several famous hardcore pictures including the infamous PUSSY TALK but there's no question that most people consider LA FEMME-OBJET, also known as PROGRAMMED FOR PLEASURE, to be his masterpiece.

What's so remarkable about this picture is that it actually mixes various genres quite well as the story itself is basically the Dr. Frankenstein and monster. You've got a man who creates a robot to do whatever he says but soon that robot is in charge of things. I thought the story was told extremely well and it certainly helps that the performances are also a lot better than you'd typically see in a film like this.

Allan is perfect in the role of the writer who just can't get enough sex. Helene Shirley, Laura Clair and Nadine Roussial are among the ladies who take their turn with him. Then you've got Marilyn Jess who easily steals the picture as the beautiful blonde. Her performance is right on the mark as she's basically playing an emotional-less robot who is just here for one thing.

The cinematography is another major plus here as the sex scenes are filmed extremely well as are the scenes without any sex. LA FEMME-OBJET is certainly one of the better adult pictures ever made.
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