Le Sexe Nu. Aka Naked Sex. (1973) – Jose Benazeraf.

Lusty 70s Gallic nookie-fest Le Sexe Nu does exactly what it says on the tin, proffering a Pornucopia of hyper-sexualized nudity, but there's also a sizzling bounty of partially nude sex, and a sultry frisson of stockinged sex, the unjustly reductive title greatly short-changes the intoxicating content. There are introspective, pseudo intellectual musings to embiggen the artsy content of erotic enfant terrible Benazeref's undeniably attractively put together boudoir romp. While the flowery text is largely facile twaddle, the talented cast are exceptional, cocksure Alan Tissier is strikingly handsome, as is the enchanting Chantal Arondel, glacially portraying his increasingly bourgeois screen wife.

Celebrated smut scion Jess Franco was arguably better at this mode of sexploitation than Benzeraf, but there is certainly some credence to the general consensus that 'Le Sexe Nu' is one of Jose's finer works, especially as it retained its scintillatingly sensual allure. Like Jean Rollin, Benazeraf had a pronounced gift for composing an exquisitely tantalizing tableau, there's nothing sordid, or cheaply voyeuristic here, the viewer is offered a stylistically voluptuous feast of picture perfect pulchritude. Like so many who admire luminescent siren Nathalie Zeigler, I can unequivocally state that she burns through the celluloid with no less intensity than a brightly descending angel.