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This Desired Body
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Wikipedia article
'This Desired Body' is a 1959 French film. It was also known as 'Ce corps tant dsir' and 'Way of the Wicked'.
Plot
A young man, Guilaume, loses his job in Paris, and returns home to a seaside town, accompanied by Lina, a prostitute on the run from police. Guillaume's family, the Ferauds, runs a mussel packing factory with Henri Messardier. Henri is attracted to Lina but is unable to handle the fact she was a prostitute; he gets drunk and hits a workmate who insults her, accidentally killing him. He refuses to see Lina in prison and she marries Guillaume. Guillaume's sister Marinette adores Henri but he is unable to forget Lina.
Cast
*Daniel Glin as Guillaume Feraud
*Dany Carrel as Marinette Feraud
*Belinda Lee as Lina
*Maurice Ronet as Henri Messardier
*Jane Marken as Mme Fraud
*Antoine Balptr as M. Messardier
*Dominique Blanchar as La fille
*Georges Douking as Le commissaire
Production
Filming took place in Paris in September-October 1958. Belinda Lee was still under contract to the Rank Organisation at the time.
Reception
'Variety' called it "a sort of laborious version of 'And God Created Woman' sans the snap and jolt of the latter. Result is a fairly plodding vehicle with some exploitation factors on its^theme and sex scenes. Otherwise its literary tone and unshaped characters limit this for stronger chances. abroad... Film has a good production, gloss but actors can not do much with their unclear roles. On-the-spot lensing in a little fishing village helps^."
'Monthly Film Bulletin' called it "a laborious romantic melodrama along the lines of 'And God Created Woman' with a mussel-picking milieu but little else in the way of surprise. The actors can do nothing with their unshaped, conventional roles and literary conception. The late Belinda Lee gives an uninhibited but sympathetic performance in a part she was to make her own, the prostitute reformed, and the production has gloss; but all in all this was one of Miss Lee's more plodding vehicles."WAY OF THE WICKED "(Ce Corps tant dsir)"
Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 28, Iss. 324, (Jan 1, 1961): 169.
'Filmink' called it " not a bad little movie, helped by location filming and a frank attitude to sex, and Lee looks terrific."
References
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