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5/10
Better Off a Porno Movie Than This Type of Movie, Which Has Lots of Insinuation and No Penetration
claudio_carvalho2 November 2003
Four directors (Lizzie Burden (USA), Monika Trent (Germany), Ana Maria Magalhães (Brazil) and Clara Law (China)) present four low budget short stories about eroticism. The American one ('Let's Talk About Sex') is about a girl who participates in auditions trying to have a chance as actress, and works in an agency of sex by phone. She gets horny with a client and meets him. The German one ('Taboo Parlor') is about two lesbians having one night stand with a handsome man. The Brazilian one ('Final Call') is about a young teacher moving from the country city of Barbacena to Rio de Janeiro by train, to get a plane to New York. She is almost raped by two guys and saved by a photographer. Then she has an affair with her rescuer. And he Chinese one ('Wenton Soup') is about the cultural differences between a Chinese young woman, who live in Hong Kong, and a young man descendant of Chinese, who lives in Australia. The guy, in accordance with the definition of his uncle, looks like a banana: yellow outside, white inside. I do not like this type of tales. The Brazilian one, for example, is completely fake: spoken in English, many tourists landscape of Rio de Janeiro, the sexy and with a very Brazilian type Claudia Ohana naked, all of these together seems to be a 'fake product for exportation'. I do not like porno, but I believe would be better off the viewer spending time watching X-rated movie than this type of movie, which has lots of insinuation of kink sex and no penetration. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "Erotique"
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5/10
Why all the English?
lee_eisenberg31 October 2021
For the record, I saw the version that includes the Brazil segment. That said, I want to know why every segment is in English, despite most of them taking place outside the US. It's jarring to see Germans, Brazilians and Hong Kong people not speaking their own languages.

As for the movie itself, it's OK, not great. Lots of nudity but it leaves a lot of the sex up to your imagination. Neat seeing Bryan Cranston in an early role.
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6/10
Four episodes, in descending order of quality
gridoon202412 February 2023
One of the very few film anhtologies directed exclusively by women: unfortunately, only one of them, Lizzie Borden, manages to tell a story in the allocated (short) time. Her episode is funny, relatable, and sensual (***) The second segment starts with an intimate lesbian wake-up scene involving the sublime Camilla Soeberg who sets the screen ablaze, but after that it goes nowhere...slowly (**1/2) The third episode is odd, incoherent and spoiled at the very start by a near-rape scene; it is also awkwardly filmed in English, when it should have been in Portugese (**). The fourth is the most "arty" and explicit, but also the most boring of the bunch (*1/2). The overall rating is hovering between a 5 and a 6 out of 10, but I decided to go with a 6 mostly on the strength of Borden's contribution.
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3/10
Flavourless seduction
borgolarici28 December 2021
My version didn't include the Brazilian segment but I'm not especially interested in watching it since the other three segments kind of suck.

The American and German episodes are as bland and boring as they come, while the Chinese one is at least vaguely interesting since there's a minimum of character building. Not enough to redeem a flavourless movie anyway.
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3/10
A deserving obscurity; three weak short movies and one good one
Groverdox30 June 2016
Warning: Spoilers
"Erotique" is a weird, mostly tedious anthology movie with segments directed by four women from different countries. It is deserving of its apparently obscure status.

The first segment is the typical erotic tale that feels like a "Red Shoe Diary". It even has a jazz soundtrack. It's about an aspiring actress who works at a phone sex line. Bored of listening to her callers' fantasies, she starts trying to incorporate her own, which puts her on blast with her boss until she finds a guy - played by Bryan Cranston - who actually wants to listen. Improbably, she ends up meeting the guy.

This was the only entry with much of a story, however unbelievable it was. It wasn't erotic to me in the least, but perhaps you need to be female to get it. Oh, and there's a blink and you'll miss it nude cameo from Michelle Clunie of the US "Queer As Folk". This was the only segment with actors I recognised.

The second segment is weird and uninvolving, perhaps the weakest of a weak bunch. Two women we are supposed to believe are lesbians pick up a hot guy and take him back to their home. During sex, one of the women puts on a strap on and sodomizes him with it. Upset and angry, he leaves, going back to a car that explodes in the street. Why? Did they set the bomb? I don't know, and this tedious little movie didn't exactly make me care.

The third one is crazy. It's really badly done, with all kinds of weird distracting moments that lead up to a highly eroticised rape scene. That's right, women filmmakers filming rape to try to turn us on. Score one for the sisterhood?

Perhaps this segment is intended to be distracting at first, so we're less disturbed by the rape. I had to watch it twice to be sure that that was what I saw. It was. The young woman protagonist tied up, stripped to her Victoria's Secrets, blindfolded, and raped. Everything about it is done to turn us on.

Do the filmmakers really want to show rape as sexy? I wonder how the other filmmakers felt when they realised their work was going to be made a part of this. It just seemed careless and sick.

The last segment was my favourite by far. It was the only one I really responded to, the only one with likable characters, and the only one whose country of origin - China - actually made a difference. It's about a Chinese-Australian guy who sees his girlfriend for the first time in a while, and starts exploring his culture for tips on how to spice up his sex life. It's funny, sexy, interesting and relatable, unlike any of the others.

One good movie out of four isn't enough to save this movie, though.
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3/10
three parter disappoints
Clouseau-1112 August 1999
Three story segments that have nothing to do with each other, 1 set in the USA, one in Germany and one in Hong Kong. Had its moments especially in the USA segment, but not enough of them and ultimately too bitty to be satisfying.
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8/10
Highly misjudged erotica pic
videorama-759-85939113 July 2022
This is like nothing you've ever seen before as it's uniqueness makes it a standalone adult sex pic, and it's uniqueness in it's story, is what I love. I think this movie has been harshly criticized. It's three stories are worlds apart from each other. I found this movie to be highly erotic, indulgent, funny, but has a lot to say. There's a eminent danger we feel, as to where the engrossing characters take us. The first story involves an independant, hot young Latino, sex phone worker/struggling actress, and we have a Theresa Randall/Girl 6 atmosphere. Did Spike Lee, see this by any chance. And yes, she's fallen in love with one of her customers, a younger family man (Bryan Cranston) of all people. Our actress creates some pretty erotic fantasies too. Let's move onto number which has a shock ending. Priscilla Barnes, oh my god. How hot. Her friend's not bad either, and we have the hunky male completing the menois de trois. The erotic meter goes up, drawing on Zalman King Territory. The third, strangest of them all, involves a young Asian couple, but the better left unsaid. You have to see it for yourself. This is a well made, acted, and sadly obscure film, you should seek out. Don't be swayed, by other reviewers. Make up your own mind.. Oh, yeah, did I mention Priscilla Barnes. Wow!
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10/10
TV Dad Gone Bad - But That's Good
mantooth27 July 2001
Before Bryan Cranston was the lovable Hal on "Malcolm In The Middle," he paid his dues making movies like this. I haven't even seen the whole movie yet, only BC's part. But that segment ("Let's Talk About Love") alone has already made this movie worth the six bucks I paid for it. This may not be BC's masterpiece, but it's worth watching to see what kind of roles he played before "MITM." Check it out, just make sure the kids aren't around...
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