All Ladies Do It

This is a Tinto Brass film. Tinto is the stylish softcore director whose films are marked by elegant photography and set design, with always just a hint of vaginal lips. This particular one is kind of a specialty film, in that it has a focus on buttocks, even more than usual for Tinto.

The female star (beautiful, white-faced Claudia Koll) is a married woman, but she has many sexual adventures. Far from keeping it a secret from her husband, she has his tacit approval, and they use her erotic adventures to stimulate their own love life when she recounts them for him in detail.

NUDITY REPORT

Softcore porn film. Claudia Koll shows everything including vaginal lips.

Several other women show their stuff in naked dancing, naked swimming, naked showering, modeling, and even sex.

DVD info from Amazon.

letterboxed 1.5:1 (strange!)
no meaningful features

The husband does finally get jealous when Diana has an affair with a poet who is obsesses with buttocks. The husband proceeds to snub Diana's advances, so she seeks release elsewhere. Her adventures get a bit too rough for her tastes, so she returns to her husband.

Tinto's erotic philosophy is jejune, and the forward motion of his plot is often non-existent, but he does manage to do a nice job at combining elegant settings and lovely women.

I think this probably looked very impressive in the cameraman's lens, but the DVD transfer is undersaturated and undercontrasted, and the scenes look like they take place in a steamy shower room even when they don't.

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With their votes ... IMDB summary: IMDB readers say 5.2 of 10

IMDb guideline: 7.5 usually indicates a level of excellence, about like three and a half stars from the critics. 6.0 usually indicates lukewarm watchability, about like two and a half stars from the critics. The fives are generally not worthwhile unless they are really your kind of material, about like two stars from the critics. Films under five are generally awful even if you like that kind of film, equivalent to about one and a half stars from the critics or less, depending on just how far below five the rating is.

My own guideline: A means the movie is so good it will appeal to you even if you hate the genre. B means the movie is not good enough to win you over if you hate the genre, but is good enough to do so if you have an open mind about this type of film. C means it will only appeal to genre addicts, and has no crossover appeal. D means you'll hate it even if you like the genre. E means that you'll hate it even if you love the genre. F means that the film is not only unappealing across-the-board, but technically inept as well.

Based on this description, this film is a C- as a softcore. Probably would be a C or C+ with a good DVD transfer.