'Camille 2000' (1969) - Radley Metzger.

Fiendishly fabulous, infamously inventive, and compellingly stylish, master movie eroticist, Radley Metzger's scintillatingly exotic, ‘Camille 2000’ - the 'now' child! is a lushly provocative, wildly groovesome, deliciously decadent, handsomely hedonistic update of Alandre Dumas’s ‘La Dame aux Camelias’. This remains an engrossing, luxurious-looking, titty-twisted, doomed romance par excellence; part perky pop-art, modish 60s Italianate melodrama, part hyper-stylised, narcotically-laced sexcapades. Uncommonly beauteous to look at, Metzger's luridly hypnotic, kaleidoscopically cool drama about the tempestuous, in-out romance of jazzy jet-set lovelies, Marguerite Gautier (Daniele Gaubert) and, Armand Duval (Nino Castelnuovo) is sure to arouse more than your interest!   

To paraphrase the ‘Chicago Sun-Times’ “Daniele Gaubert is presented in the nude”, but enough of the broadsheets penetrating analysis, if Warhol had any tangible talent outside of a disquietingly luminescent paleness, he could only have dreamed of fashioning a far-out, polymorphously psychedelic perverse peep-show such as this! The silky lounge-a-delic score by soundtrack sophisticate, and all-round Euro-cult icon, Piero Piccioni is absolutely one of his finest sonic confections! It’s rare to see such bravura sensual filmmaking artistry as Metzger's in full flamboyant flight, and, sweet baby Jesu!! what a vertiginous, voluptuously voyeuristic voyage into permissive pulchritude this is, and, before I go, did I mention the devastatingly delicious, Daniele Gaubert frequency gets her flouncy, avant stylish kit off? Aye! 'tis far more than mere mortal men deserve, mayte! 

'Gird your excitable loins for a glamorous, visually voluptuous, dazzlingly decadent diorama of palate-poppingly tasty smut!!! Revered sexographer, Radley Metzger's sublimely erotic masterpiece, 'Camille 2000' remains an audaciously Sinematic melange of Russ Meyer, Luchino Visconti, and Douglas Sirk, a flawlessly executed, exquisitely voyeuristic treasure trove of this esteemed filmmaker's sumptuously sensual Mise-en-scène!' - Weirdlingwolf. 

 

 

 

'Kiss me quick, slick! I gotta' date with that good dick!'

'Give me lush, pensive, groovy moodiness, baby! yeah!!!'

'Cor!'