Bacchanale

USA 1970
produced by
John Amero, Lem Amero for Amero Brothers
directed by John Amero, Lem Amero
starring Uta Erickson, Darcy Brown, Chuck Federico, Lydia Burns, Patricia Kleb, Roberta Scardera, Pat Agers, D.B. Brown, Bruce Michael, Donny Lee, Richard Jennings, Bernice Turner, Darcy & LaRue, Ron Babin, Anna Riva (= Roberta Findlay), Steve Gould, Robert West (= Michael Findlay), Neil Jenny, Stanley Kamel, Helga Ripp (= Linda Boyce), Dick Sherman, Warren Miles, Robert Rhodes, Dick Bennett
written by John Amero, Lem Amero, music by Lem Amero (= Firth De Mule)

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Ruth (Uta Erickson) has never really come over the loss of her brother Gordon (Dick Bennett), whom she, it turns out, had an incestuous relationship with, something she feels guilty for of course, but that doesn't change the feelings she still has for him. One night, she has a dream that sees her in two worlds at the same time, on one hand the "real world", where she attends a boring cocktail party in the nude, later finds herself at a wake jerking off the naked deceased who might be her brother.

At the same time, a masks stranger (who might be the grim reaper himself) drags her into a bizarre fantasy world where depravity seems to rule and she's drawn from one sexual situation to the next, also with men who might be her brother. Eventually, she meets her brother, a GI who seems absent-minded and acts as if he has as good as forgotten her and especially what they did "long ago".

Ruth unmasks the stranger, who describes himself as judge, God and the Devil at the same time, but all she finds under the mask is herself ...

I don't know if above synopsis makes much sense as it's more of an interpretation than an actual summary, as the film's plot seems to be somewhat elusive - and in the case of Bacchanale, this is a good thing, because this is neither a narrative movie nor your typical porn flick (even if hardcore sex sequences pop up throughout the plot) but more of a triplike experience through bizarre mindscapes that despite all the nudity and sex seem much more artsy than sleazy and that have a very coherent aesthetic style to them, only augmented by the film's tinted black and white images with only the occasional glimpses of colour.

Quite fascinating, actually, and highly unusual - not only for a porn flick ... or an arthouse flick ...

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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