Therese and Isabelle

Aroview: Erotic elegy from cult director Metzger with two young girls experience awakening sexuality at a Swiss boarding school.

It might be lacking the stylistic bravado of Metzger's latter works, but is delicately structured and surprisingly affecting for all its earnestness. Fairly boundary-pushing for its time, this works around its lack of explicitness with an erotically-charged voiceover that fills in the 'off-screen' action. To quote Baudelaire, it's luxurious, languorous, sensuous, voluptuous...

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