Butterflies

Swedish erotica at its best.

Butterflies is one of three movies that legendary American sexploitation writer-director Joe Sarno made in Germany in the mid-70s. The first of the three was Vampire Ecstacy which was a bit of a departure for Sarno. Butterflies is less interesting, but still it’s a Sarno film. All three movies were shot in English.

Denise (Marie Forså) lives on a farm and she’s bored. She dreams of being a fashion model. Even the regular sex with her boyfriend Freddie (Eric Edwards) isn’t enough to break the monotony of rural life. So she decides to head to Munich to try to get her modeling career started. She hitch-hikes and develops a simple but effective technique for getting lifts. She lifts her skirt, and since she never wears underwear it works pretty well. First she is picked up by a rather creepy guy who sells kinky women’s underwear but she soon ditches him. Then she gets a ride with Frank (Harry Reems).

Do you like my new bikini?

Can't wait to choke on your cock daddy.

Frank is exciting and she figures he’s the sort of man she needs to meet. He runs a club in Munich and lives a glamorous lifestyle revolving around women, booze, women, expensive clothes, women, night-clubs and women. Frank already has a live-in girlfriend named Verena but he doesn’t let that cramp his style. The sex with Frank is hot, and Denise enjoys sex. Verena warns her she’s going to be just one of a long line of women that Frank picks up and then discards but Denise convinces herself that that won’t happen to her.

Frank doesn’t do much to further her modeling career but he does provide her with the lifestyle and excitement she craves.

Of course Verena’s warnings soon turn out to be all too true. Frank is chronically incapable of keeping his pants zipped up. When Frank meets the glamorous Natascha Denise finally realises what the score is.

Beat around the blonde bushes haha!

Mirror, mirror, how much cum can this girl swallow?

It’s not much of a plot but in Sarno’s hands it has a rather bitter-sweet quality to it. Like his earlier American sexploitation movies Butterflies has a dark edge to it. Sarno’s movies never explode into violence but the passions aroused by the pursuit of pleasure do have their price. The idea that you can pursue sex and pleasure without becoming emotionally entangled always proves to be an illusion. It’s not that Sarno’s movies are conventional warnings about the wages of sin. He avoids simplistic moral judgments but he’s always at his strongest when dealing with emotions and when emotions are aroused people do get hurt.

The acting is reasonably impressive. Marie Forså is quite effective at portraying Denise’s odd blend of overwhelming sexuality and rural naïvete and she’s also able to make Denise a real person. Denise wants sex but she wants love as well, and she’s not going to get that from Frank. Forså has to do real acting and she manages pretty well. One might also add that she’s rather stunning.

Yes! vintage hardcore!

I need help with my pussy fever.

Harry Reems (best known as the star of Deep Throat) was a major star in hardcore films in the 70s. This time he has to do some real acting as well and he’s quite adequate. Frank is exciting but he’s not a nice guy, although in his defence he never really pretends to be anything other than he is - a man completely devoted to the selfish pursuit of his own pleasure.  Reems has to work on some actual characterisation here.

The movie is basically softcore but it was shot hardcore - in other words the sex is not simulated but most of the more graphic hardcore elements were edited out. Still, it does cross the line into mild hardcore territory at times.

Zoom blowjob.

Lick that twat!

Blonde bush under attack!

As usual in Sarno’s 1970s softcore offerings the sex is actually erotic, the women (and the men) are attractive, and the sex scenes are filmed with a certain amount of care so it’s more than just the dreary mechanical couplings you’d expect in a hardcore feature. And, typically for a Sarno movie, the focus is on the emotions of sex rather than the mechanics. The sex is however rather stronger than in a typical 1970s softcore film so if that’s a problem for you you have been warned.

The Swedish DVD release from Another World in is English with optional sub-titles in all the Scandinavian languages. And since it was made by Joe Sarno you do need the dialogue! It’s a very good transfer in the correct aspect ratio of 1.33:1 and the two-disc DVD set includes both the director’s cut and the less interesting XXX version as well as a commentary track (in English) and various other extras. This is a case of an erotic movie that really does deserve the kind of DVD release usually reserved for art movies and happily it gets it here.

Here's the opening sequence:

And the Cinderella style movie excerpt:

 

Flossie, Swedish Sex Kitten

Teen Nymph.

Swedish Erotica! don't we all love swedish erotica? It just so happens, that I did a little maintenance in our lovely blog, only to find out the most menacing truth: Missing swedish erotica reviews!!!! and, I, being an avid fan of perhaps the greatest swedish erotica star of all times, simply couldn't continue with my life, so after some time looking for a way to kill myself I finally saw the light at the end of the light and decided to go on. Today's entry is perhaps one of the most popular schoolgirl gone wild 70's flick: Flossie, AKA, Teenage Nymph, AKA Swedish Sexy Kitten. 

An original promo postcard from the film, yes, the infamous lesbian schlock schlock scene.

Filmed some time around 1974, Flossie is nothing but the sexual journey of a teenage school student that is not afraid to be embraced by the world of sex. Perhaps, you might be wondering "ok, but that story has been told many times before", and, yeah, you're right, but that's what exploitation is all about, and the 70's delivered plenty of stories like Flossie's but very few of them became a cult item, believe you me.  Marie Fosa leads the film with great ease and an amazing angel like beaty that could have only come out of the 1970's I frigging love so freaking much.

Dirty teen sluts shower together.

Legend has it, Marie Fosa (credited as Maria Lynn in Flossie) never used any body double at her "making the beast" scenes. However, it is true that she did use body doubles in the vaginal/anal penetration scenes, so after a serious investigation I assume she was a fan of fellatio & cunni lingus, because in those scenes she was actually "acting" all by herself. Also, to have body doubles for the hardcore scenes was a very common practice in the 70's exploitation scene, as most of the actresses didn't want to be adressed as porn sluts (does it make any difference if you're sucking dicks and not being actually penetrated? I don't know, and I don't care) 

Our innocent teen in blonde bush action.

Marie Fosa did like sucking cocks.

Shut the fuck up! tell me what Flossie is about!

While strolling around Stockholm, an embassy worker becomes fascinated by an attractive older woman and a beautiful young girl accompanying her. He finally chances to meet the older woman and she brings him home and introduces him to the girl, Flossie. Moments later he and Flossie are exchanging oral favors (repeatedly). A half hour or so into the movie they finally take a break from the sex, and the man tells the girl the story of being seduced by three women and ending up the unwitting centerpiece in a sex-club orgy (Man, I hate it when that happens!). Flossie, in turn, tells him about how she was instructed in arts of masturbation and lesbianism at her strict boarding school for really, really sexy, overaged orphans. It turns out though that, aside from the masturbation, lesbianism, and oral sex, Flossie is actually an "untouched" virgin. The older woman is planning for the embassy worker to be her "first" (because he once converted HER from lesbianism and then apparently forgot all about it). She makes him hold off for awhile with Flossie and instead have sex with her. But, of course, he doesn't end up having to wait very long. . .

Don't be shy! i'm grown enough to swallow your cum boy!

Let's share this cock sis!

This is another very loose adaptation of Victorian-era literature by Swedish director/cinematographer Mac Ahlberg (he had earlier tackled John Cleland's "Fannie Hill" and Emile Zola's "Nana"). Between its somewhat classier-than-usual origins, its decent cinematography and music, and its avoidance of hardcore porn conventions (like extreme close-ups of pistoning genitalia and spraying bodily fluids), it ends up being a pretty tasteful affair overall. As Flossie, a barely (barely) legal Maria Forsa is definitely the best thing about this. Forsa was one of the most appealing "Swedish sin"-era beauties. She was perhaps most well-known for several movies she made with expatriate American director Joe Sarno. Kim Franck is also pretty good as the older woman, but like a lot of porn actresses she's saddled with a ridiculous matronly hair-do to make her look older than she really was (while Forsa, of course, is in pig tails at one point). The embassy worker, similarly, is played by a younger man with his hair dyed slightly grey to resemble a sophisticated middle-age playboy type.

Oh yes! diddle my skiddle!

Let's clean that dirty twat.

69 pussy.

Obviously, whatever "plot" this thing has never gets in the way of the sex. This isn't as good as Ahlberg's best films like "I, a Woman", but it's better than anything he did after he went hardcore, and it's worth seeing for Maria Forsa if nothing else. The problem is the only DVD release of this film is no longer available, and getting a copy of this hard to find gem can take a little while, so maybe the sinful download can be a means to watch this swedish erotica classic. Marie Fosa continued to film more sexploitations flicks, Flossie being the most popular of them all. Some time soon we'll review "Butterflies" another Fosa's flick.
 

Here's the opening sequence of the film. Pay attention to the awesome background music that makes Stockholm feels a lot warmer than it looks:

See you next time with the return of godess Christina Lindberg with "Journey to Japan"...