Directed by:
Just JaeckinComposer:
Pierre BacheletCast:
Tawny Kitaen, Brent Huff, Zabou Breitman, Bernadette Lafont, Vernon Dobtcheff, Dominique Marcas, Georges Lycan, Jean Rougerie, Takashi Kawahara (more)Plots(1)
Tawny Kitaen made her motion picture debut as the sexy adventuress who hires a gruff soldier of fortune (Brent Huff) to help find her missing father. But great perils await them on their worldwide quest, including depraved pirates, scorching deserts, steamy jungles and their own naked desires. And even if they can find the legendary lost Land Of The Yik Yak, will Gwendoline survive her final ordeal against an empire of lust-crazed warrior women? (official distributor synopsis)
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Gwendoline wants to be a mix of Barbarella and Indiana Jones, but the result is dull nonsense that is neither adventurous nor erotic, and also lacks exaggeration and, despite a sizable budget, capable actors and artists behind the camera. Just Jaeckin was rather fortunate to release the film Emmanuelle at the right time, as it became a global sensation, though it definitely did not possess any outstanding directorial qualities. In Gwendoline, this is brought to mind by the futile action scenes. Taken as a whole, unfortunately, the film is not dumb enough to be funny, but only tiresome, sterile and, furthermore, offensive in its antediluvian treatment of gender. Today, Gwendoline can serve only as a complementary work to the new version of Tomb Raider. Both pictures have essentially identical storylines in which a young woman sets out on the trail of her lost father to an exotic land, where she half coerces cooperation from a local hunk, who eventually becomes her ally. However, in filling out the details and the conceptualisation of the characters, the two films could not be farther apart. While the action-adventure Tomb Raider with the wonderfully charismatic and physically fit Alicia Vikander and the truly masculine Daniel Wu stands completely outside of gender and racial formulas, Gwendoline is a dullchick flickbased on formulas and prejudices to such an extent that it contains nothing more than that.
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