Nana

Klubb Super 8

R2 DVD

M

English with Swedish subtitles

I have mixed emotions about this film. One the negative side it has minimal plot and minimal characterization but on the positive side it is beautifully filmed and stars Anna Gael, a very attractive lady. The biggest problem is that is based on Emile Zola’s novel Nana about the sex life of a French courtesan. It must have been an exceptionally boring novel because, even when converted to film, it is still boring.

It deals with Nana’s promiscuous behaviour, swapping boyfriends rich or poor, and staying in borrowed apartments where her parties soon turn into orgies. She is something of a female predator taking and discarding men as she pleases. She has trouble handling rejection, however, and her life will become more difficult.

The problem is that the audience soon becomes bored with Miss Gael’s body, whether partly clad or fully nude, but there is little else to keep the film going. When the film first showed in Sweden much of the audience walked out. The rest was probably asleep. A later version cut by ten minutes and renamed Take Me, Love Me suffered similar obscurity.

There is a rumour that even the body was not Anna Gael’s – a body double was used. There is a counter-rumour that they took the shots of her body anyway and left them in the film.

The film is in its own way quite tastefully erotic. It never goes into pornography and perhaps this was what gave it a poor reception. At a time when standards were becoming more liberal this film just wasn’t what the audiences expected. It was still hot enough to get an X rating in the United States, though. Nowadays the erotic content wouldn’t rate a mention.

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