Furies Sexuelles / Prostitution Clandestine Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		3.0
Video		4.5
Audio		4.0
Extras		3.5
Overall		4.5

Furies Sexuelles / Prostitution Clandestine Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Brian Orndorf April 28, 2021

Vinegar Syndrome offer a window to European carnal appetites with a double feature release, pairing 1976’s “Furies Sexuelles” and 1975’s “Prostitution Clandestine.” These are French productions from director Alain Payet, a moviemaker with unusual interests in sexual activity and kink, on full view in the features, which offer a few lighter affairs and a lot more darkness, with the helmer pursuing a different sort of adult film viewing experience.

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Furies Sexuelles / Prostitution Clandestine Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

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Furies Sexuelles / Prostitution Clandestine Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

• Interview (27:16, HD) sits down with actor Richard Allan, who offers his experiences in the French adult film industry. For "Furies Sexuelles," the interviewee details his casting experience, which was basically an assessment of good looks and the ability to achieve an instant erection. He examines his relationship with director Alain Payet, warmly reflecting on the man and his movies, but also challenging the difficult content in "Furies Sexuelles." Allan spends time remembering co-stars (including actors from "Prostitution Clandestine") and friends, many of whom have passed away, and he shares memories of industry evolution, encountering a loosening of censorship in the 1970s and the birth of gonzo filmmaking in the 1980s. An anecdote concerning some hotel hellraising with Payet is shared, and Allan closes with thoughts on his brief move into production before stepping away from adult movies.

• Archival Article Gallery (1:40) collects magazine pages and pictorials celebrating the release of "Furies Sexuelles" and "Prostitution Clandestine."

Prostitution Clandestine

• A Theatrical Trailer (3:19, HD) is included.

Furies Sexuelles

• Bonus Belgium Scene (5:29, HD) is an unidentified deleted sequence from "Furies Sexuelles," involving a strange man in David Bowie-esque makeup commanding a prostitute to dress in a cartoonish Native American costume, tie him up, and sodomize him with a vegetable.

• A Theatrical Trailer has not been included on this release.

Furies Sexuelles / Prostitution Clandestine Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

"Furies Sexuelles" and "Prostitution Clandestine" look terrific, with Vinegar Syndrome reviving these obscure titles with ideal clarity and color, giving students of this type of cinema a full view of screen events. They even managed to track down a production participant for an interview, which is most unexpected.