Potentially one of the most scandalous films ever made -- except that it has been little seen outside France and has not aged well.
– ,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
Though much of the content is scandalous, the title is ultimately an accurate one -- the sensibility behind the images is innocent, enthusiastic, and childlike.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
I didn't hate it, although it affected me in bewildering and sometimes unpleasant ways. I didn't find it a success, but I found it an audacious attempt, and it's filled with images impossible to forget.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
rotten:
The over-all work remains a courageous example of a personal kind of film making that, to me, leads nowhere.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
9 May 2005
rotten:
Neither hard nor softcore. Yugoslav filmmaker Dusan Makavejev's first pic in the West, is provocative but also arbitrary.