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Bilitis (1977)
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A teenage schoolgirl spends the summer with a couple whose marriage is on the rocks and develops a crush on the wife. Meanwhile, she pursues a local teenage boy and tries to find a âsuitable male loverâ for the wife. Although Bilitis can be best described as a coming of age film, the title character, Bilitis, ends up returning to school at the end of the film realizing she is not yet ready for adulthood.
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apollothemis133
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December 29, 2022
Subject: Beautiful Story
Subject: Beautiful Story
Until this week, I never heard of this movie. Having watched it I'm impressed and sorry I missed the initial release.
A young woman loves two people and ... she sacrifices her love to make both of them happy. The music, setting, and soft-touch photography, weld together this beautiful story about love and loss. It isn’t, in my opinion, a tragedy, but it's about growing up, maturing, and seeing the harsh adult reality that love might be painful. The young models and the nudity is well placed. This is one of my favorite movies.
A young woman loves two people and ... she sacrifices her love to make both of them happy. The music, setting, and soft-touch photography, weld together this beautiful story about love and loss. It isn’t, in my opinion, a tragedy, but it's about growing up, maturing, and seeing the harsh adult reality that love might be painful. The young models and the nudity is well placed. This is one of my favorite movies.
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Nuclearvault
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December 8, 2022
Subject: BETTER QUALİTY
Subject: BETTER QUALİTY
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Gerald Austin
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August 17, 2022
Subject: Very, very nice.
Subject: Very, very nice.
Although if a person tries to make sense of this, it would probably be confusing, I consider this to be a beautiful movie. David Hamilton is my favorite
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photographer. Mr. Hamilton surrounded himself with beautiful young girls and had a talent for photographing them in beautiful ways. The woman who played Melissa was his long-time companion. This movie ends with Bilitis being sad, which didn’t please me, but the photography and soundtrack were beautiful. Of course I was especially drawn to those beautiful nude girls. The fact that this was filmed in very 'rich people' surroundings was in keeping with the type of life that Mr. Hamilton actually lived.
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abc123zzz
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June 25, 2022
Subject: So Bleak
Subject: So Bleak
so unmodern... so good;
its really beautiful with a nice pace to it
if you are fed up with modern motion picture
with flashy graphics and overdose of ... violence
and blinking screen too rapid for the brain
to process through anything, take that step
back and enjoy the trip,
just watch out for those ant labyrinths...
its really beautiful with a nice pace to it
if you are fed up with modern motion picture
with flashy graphics and overdose of ... violence
and blinking screen too rapid for the brain
to process through anything, take that step
back and enjoy the trip,
just watch out for those ant labyrinths...
Reviewer:
betadirectory
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May 31, 2021
Subject: This is the debut film of D. Hamilton
Subject: This is the debut film of D. Hamilton
This is the debut film of D. Hamilton, a very well known photographer from the seventies. Contrary to the other commentator I found this a marvelous film,
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but you have to look at it from a certain perspective. If you look at this film searching for a good script, for profundity of conversation, for strong acting (genre “Cat on a ht tin roof”), this film will not appeal to you. But if you look at it like looking at a Monnet painting, listening to Debussy music or reading M. Proust, in essence, if you drink its simple, uncomplicated impressions, listen to the sublime music, watch the beautiful and stylish shots, enjoy the sensuality in the film without too much looking for sense in everything, the film is truly beautiful. In short: if you look at it like you look at impressionist art, not looking for all sorts of plots and hidden messages, but just to enjoy its simple and straight forward beauty, you will be drawn into a wonderful world and afterwards you’ll be longing to live in that world of flowers, fresh life, warm summer in the country, swimming in the sea, having your first love etc…
From Amazon:
Bilitis (all short vowels) is leaving her boarding school. Although it seems puritanical in some respects, it is quite permissive in others. Bilitis has taken another girl as a lover but must leave her as she leaves school. She is not going with parents, but with a governess of some sort.
Bilitis then runs into a young man she who took pictures at her school and begins to spend time with him. Meanwhile she becomes aware that her governess and her husband do not have the best relationship. She seduces her governess and vows to find her a lover. I am not real clear on the motivations here but in the end Bilitis is not the happiest of campers.
Although meant to be erotic, there is plenty of casual nudity and a couple of understated love scenes. Definitely not for the narrow-minded but very mild overall.
https://www.erogarga.com/bilitis-1977-david-hamilton/
From Amazon:
Bilitis (all short vowels) is leaving her boarding school. Although it seems puritanical in some respects, it is quite permissive in others. Bilitis has taken another girl as a lover but must leave her as she leaves school. She is not going with parents, but with a governess of some sort.
Bilitis then runs into a young man she who took pictures at her school and begins to spend time with him. Meanwhile she becomes aware that her governess and her husband do not have the best relationship. She seduces her governess and vows to find her a lover. I am not real clear on the motivations here but in the end Bilitis is not the happiest of campers.
Although meant to be erotic, there is plenty of casual nudity and a couple of understated love scenes. Definitely not for the narrow-minded but very mild overall.
https://www.erogarga.com/bilitis-1977-david-hamilton/
Reviewer:
Bupphafriend
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June 6, 2020
Subject: "Bilitis" bi-sexual European bliss
Subject: "Bilitis" bi-sexual European bliss
I remember this film. I saw it at a movie theatre downtown in my hometown that specialized in European movies. An art house movie at a art house movie
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theatre. I was a teenager, probably younger than "Bilitis." Seeing "intelectual" movies. Did I understand what was going on with "Bilitis"? I remember I was scandalized and turned on similtaneosly. The sexual content, lesbian Bilitis? Bi-sexual? Her journey of discovery. At least sublimely, I thought that was a common theme to these Euro-flics. The way people dressed and their basic morays towards sex were different than America. What is relevant is what I remember thinking about this movie and movie going- to experience from 1977. One thing was clear, Bilitis wasn't going around freaked out about "her" sexual identity. I didn't get the older woman with the gruff husband then, their dynamic. I do now. So I sat through this film bedazzled and boggled by its sexual content in 1977 in a pretty packed house of bohemians with my fake intellectual friends. My thoughts ultimately focused on the differences of life in America as I knew, at least suburban life, and that of cinematic Europe...Now that I've been to Europe my thoughts are still forming.
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