Vanessa

Retrospective, DE 1977, 91 min., dt. OV, 35 mm

By: Hubert Frank

VANESSA begins where EMMANUELLE ends, the PR slogan for Hubert Frank’s soft sex melodrama promises – and reminds of Just Jaeckin’s immensely successful high gloss sex film EMMANUELLE. And indeed, this looks and feels very different from most other German sex films of its era. The story of convent schoolgirl Vanessa who inherits a cartel of bordellos in Hong Kong is a lavish, glamorous melodrama, set under the shining sun and most beautiful to look at.