Rotten
Neither hard nor softcore. Yugoslav filmmaker Dusan Makavejev's first pic in the West, is provocative but also arbitrary.
Variety Staff, Variety
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Overview
The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.
Director and cast
- Dušan Makavejev Director
- Pierre Clémenti as A sailor from the Potemkin
- Carole Laure as Miss Monde 1984 / Miss Canada
- Anna Prucnal as Capt. Anna Planeta
- Sami Frey as El Macho
- John Vernon as Aristote Alplanalpe, AKA M. Kapital
- Jane Mallett as Mrs. Alplanalpe
- Roy Callender as Jeremiah Muscle
- Marpessa Dawn Cast
- Don Arioli Cast
- Otto Muehl Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
45%
Tomatometer
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
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
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
Rotten
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
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