"Max must have felt like the guest of honor at a banquet of flesh..it was all here for the taking, his every appetite ready to be satisfied."
Just a sample folks for your amusement.
Babette and her sexual(..lesbian)exploits, narrating her Emanuelle-type of lustful encounters in the big city. Babette needs cash, contacts a photographer, and enters a new society where she satisfies her carnal desires. Soon, as her lesbian awakening flourishes, Babette will meet the "daughters of lesbos" and the rest is history.
As mentioned above, the narration is completely cornball, Sue Akers attempting woefully to convey her(..and others in the room with her also engaging in terminally boring soft-core exercises which often dull your senses instead of titillate)experiences and passionate feelings in a decadent prose. This narration is more likely to induce eye-rolling and cause giggles than tapping into the desires/fantasies of the viewer watching BABETTE. The cast look like a group of middle-class suburban housewives(..along with their repellent husbands who want a piece of the action) who wanted to let their hair down, than experienced pros who could successfully grab your attention, capture your libido, and command the screen. I found myself yawning when not chuckling at the narration as our lead informs us of the "sexual heat" occurring as women embrace. The sex scenes essentially consist of females disrobing each other, fingers and puckered lips fondling flesh, bodies gyrating(..imitating orgiastic fervor), as Woodcock's camera(..and editing)avoid close contact or explicit detail. You could say that BABETTE was a precursor to the soft-core sex genre of the 90's. The rock score features about three tunes repeated over and over and Woodcock uses such a bright light during the sex scenes, you can actually see his shadow as he's filming them. Most of the narrated dialogue(..none of the dialogue spoken between characters is ever heard;Babette tells us what we need to know)seems lifted from a bad romance novel reflecting the feelings of a woman with passions burning and all that jazz.
I think those who like BABETTE will be drawn to the women themselves..if you do not, uh oh..
Just a sample folks for your amusement.
Babette and her sexual(..lesbian)exploits, narrating her Emanuelle-type of lustful encounters in the big city. Babette needs cash, contacts a photographer, and enters a new society where she satisfies her carnal desires. Soon, as her lesbian awakening flourishes, Babette will meet the "daughters of lesbos" and the rest is history.
As mentioned above, the narration is completely cornball, Sue Akers attempting woefully to convey her(..and others in the room with her also engaging in terminally boring soft-core exercises which often dull your senses instead of titillate)experiences and passionate feelings in a decadent prose. This narration is more likely to induce eye-rolling and cause giggles than tapping into the desires/fantasies of the viewer watching BABETTE. The cast look like a group of middle-class suburban housewives(..along with their repellent husbands who want a piece of the action) who wanted to let their hair down, than experienced pros who could successfully grab your attention, capture your libido, and command the screen. I found myself yawning when not chuckling at the narration as our lead informs us of the "sexual heat" occurring as women embrace. The sex scenes essentially consist of females disrobing each other, fingers and puckered lips fondling flesh, bodies gyrating(..imitating orgiastic fervor), as Woodcock's camera(..and editing)avoid close contact or explicit detail. You could say that BABETTE was a precursor to the soft-core sex genre of the 90's. The rock score features about three tunes repeated over and over and Woodcock uses such a bright light during the sex scenes, you can actually see his shadow as he's filming them. Most of the narrated dialogue(..none of the dialogue spoken between characters is ever heard;Babette tells us what we need to know)seems lifted from a bad romance novel reflecting the feelings of a woman with passions burning and all that jazz.
I think those who like BABETTE will be drawn to the women themselves..if you do not, uh oh..
