Tuesday, October 12, 2021

'Schoolgirl Hitchhikers' (1973) – Jean Rollin.

Uncommonly handsome couple Monica (Joëlle Coeur) and Jackie (Gilda Arancio) make for two expressly delectable nubiles who are currently trekking across the no less breathtaking French countryside. Exhausted after their extended peregrinations, they happily discover a rather grand-looking, sinisterly isolated country house. Seemingly empty, Monika and Jackie gleefully Goldilocks their way inside soon finding a bed to begin their fulsome frolics! Colourfully, and with pleasing alacrity, director Jean Rollin dispenses with the tawdry business of exposition, zestfully replacing filigree plot with a sublimely sensuous sequence of sinfully supple Sapphic congress, wherein our two perfectly perky, deliciously pale, long-wondering waifs slink sensually into one another's slender arms!

A little time after their unhurried, amorously explicit interlude has concluded, the still needful Monica restlessly goes to the porch for a satisfying smoke, only to less than anxiously discover that they are no longer quite alone! They have inadvertently sheltered in small-time hood Fred's (Willy Braque) secluded hideaway, and after the majestically moustachioed Fred, Monika and Jackie proceed to ménage a trois with laudable energy, Jean Rollin turns up the grindhouse heat! Providing additional lashings of gratuitous gun-play, titillating bouts of torture, exceedingly phat-sounding drum breaks, and the forceful introduction of a tooled-up private dick, 'Schoolgirl Hitchhikers' is a luridly episodic delight! While, perhaps, one of the more, shall we say, roughly hewn gems in maestro Jean Rollin's mercurial, multi-faced genre oeuvre, enjoyed as a B-Movie bite of savoury gallic smut, it's pretty delectable! And rabid Rollin fans will most certainly enjoy the great man's audaciously Red-turtle-necked cameo at the very end!















 

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