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Various videos:

1. I've never seen this Mariah Carey nip-slip before, but it sure seems to be the real deal.
2. Penelope Cruz in her very first filmed acting appearance in Serie rose

Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours (1989):

This film is also known as "My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days."

The film begins with a man receiving a diagnosis from his doctor. Lucas is a genius who has invented a completely new computer language. Unfortunately, he also has a disease something like Alzheimer's, which causes his memory to erode. The supreme irony is that a man who invented a language is losing his ability to communicate by language.

Shortly after his diagnosis, he meets an emotionally unstable woman who works as a nightclub medium. They are attracted to one another, so he follows her to a seaside resort where they spend time together. As they fall deeper in love, Lucas also falls deeper into a haze, where is is befuddled by the world, by his own inability to communicate, and by the mysteries of his language, which he babbles like a child who is  discovering wordplay and word relationships for the first time.

Stir in some of the obligatory elements of modern European art films: deserted seaside resorts, a dwarf wearing the official "call for Phillip Morris" outfit, people wearing top hats for no reason, open windows framed by curtains blown dramatically by powerful ocean breezes, long philosophical monologues, a nymphomaniacal mother, gratuitous naked lesbians, a homosexual husband, tragic flashbacks to family tragedies, and various colorful cokeheads screaming at one another.

Have you guessed that it's an art film?

An art film taken from a best selling romance novel!

The novel by Raphaële Billetdoux is about a couple who meet by chance in a seaside hotel and spend three nights together. I imagine the book's readers would have been thoroughly confused that this surrealistic tragedy has the same name as their beloved book. In fact, the novelist had the same fear, and insisted that her name be expunged from the credits because the film had so little to do with her novel other than a few basic ideas and the names of the characters.

I think that the basic idea was outstanding, and could have made for a brilliant film if helmed by a controlled and subtle director. Since the male lead was losing his grasp of language and needed an anchor to hold on to, the script could have worked if it made me care about the main female character, and had drawn her as a normal person trying to cope with a surreal situation. Unfortunately, director Andrej Zulawski is one of those guys who goes over-the-top with symbolism and surrealism, so most of the film's potential gets drowned in a sea of pretentiousness and BoHo excess. He made the woman seem to have less grasp of reality than the guy! She seemed to be a deeply disturbed person, possibly even clinically insane, so she was constantly weeping and muttering away about various crazy ideas while the guy was babbling and linking words in free association. Meanwhile, many of the minor background characters were engaged in various loud, abnormal and drug-addled excesses of their own. With no anchor in reality, the film's atmosphere often degenerates into something resembling a carnival fun house, and sets up an insurmountable barrier between the audience and the characters.

Too bad. The premise had potential, but "Mes Nuits" ended up nothing more than a turtleneck film

Factotum (2005):

If you're interested, here are my thoughts on Factotum, the pseudo-Bukowski film with Marisa Tomei topless. I finally got through the damned thing. It's not going to be a blockbuster, by any means, but it is actually a fairly entertaining movie, and funny in a deadpan way.

Hotel (2001):

I gave up on this unwatchable Mike Figgis film, but I liked this scene with Stefania Rocca.

Stefania Rocca

Today we look at "The Deviants" with our focus on four ladies. Now with a title like that you kind of expect you are going to get non-stop nudity. Not quite true. I think we have another movie with budget limitations. Not a great movie, but it does have its funny moments.

First up Johanna Black the bitchy girl friend of the lead actor. She loves to get laid, but the best we get is bra shots.
Then porn star Shaunna Sand - who keeps her bikini on!
Angel Boris is next, keeps her clothes on (nice cleavage tho) as she gets the male star to have sex with her in a pretty funny scene.
Tiffany Shepis is our savior as she is naked in most of her scenes.  She flashes an old guy. They do screen out the fuzzy wuzzy, but she does have great tits.

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