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Whereas other porn flicks with a creative concept generally have a single idea that sets them apart or a better-than-average formalistic approach, The Kinky Ladies of Bourbon Street stands out due to the fact that, beyond the framework of the original premise and the progressive and feminist impression that it makes, each of its sequences has its own additional detail, idea or exceptional formalistic rendering. The film can be described as a feminist sexual paraphrase of Ferreri’s The Big Feast. Instead of male-oriented satire of consumerism, viewers get an absurdist film about a group of women who, out of frustration over the chauvinistic world, decide to commit joint suicide by means of sex, where they free themselves from their role as objects of male lust and actively make way for their own pleasure. The retrospective narrative first presents individuals and their ridiculous dismal experiences, which lead them to conventional suicide attempts. Based on this, they are addressed by the mysterious Maude, who challenges them to resist clichés instead of taking the embarrassing conventional ways out of this world, reverse the traditional roles and, together with her, set out on a pleasurable journey to their desired demise. And thus after sharing several moments of pleasure, each of them dies one by one in grotesque circumstances before the film reaches its bitingly funny climax. Each of the numerous sex sequences is shot completely differently – from unrestrained camerawork and humorous close-ups during the sexual encounter between the flight attendant Charlene and Idi Amin (!) to the impressively filmed death of Alice. These sequences are never conceived merely as conventional penetration, but are rather extraordinary due to the imaginatively rendered situations and certain details in the staging. The surreal interior of Maude’s home is a chapter in itself, as it looks like colourful paintings by the Czech surrealist Eva Švankmajerová, if those paintings had been composed entirely of the shapes of penises and vulvas. The Kinky Ladies of Bourbon Street is simply an absolute highlight among porn films on a global scale. On the basis of a screenplay by Claude Mulot, a leading creator of the Golden Age of French porn who was behind imaginatively original works such as Le sexe qui parle and Shocking!, director Didier Philippe-Gérard made a film that not only surprises with its creativity, inventiveness and filmmaking quality, but also parodies chauvanism and highlights female sexuality, on which the provocative narrative is built, while remaining entertaining and sexy throughout.
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