The Woman with Red Hair (1979)

1979

Junko Miyashita plays a mysterious hitchhiker picked up by a brute of a construction worker named Kenzo who takes her back to his run-down and cramped apartment in a not so good part of town. Claiming that she is running away from an abusive husband, she shacks up with him. In a futile attempt to escape the bleak working class surroundings, the pair engage in an obsessive erotic relationship.

Good News (1979)

1979

After fifteen years, a media executive meets an old friend, Gualtiero, a teacher. He also meets Gualtiero’s nymphomaniacal wife Ada, who is always on the outlook for some kinky sex, and has sex with her on a hospital bed.

Pour rire! (1996)

1996

A man finds out that his wife has a lover. To better approach him, he simulates a suicide attempt by throwing himself into the Seine before his eyes. The plan works as planned, and the man in turn dives to save him.

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)

2009

Pippa Lee feels dislocated when she and her husband Herb move from Manhattan to a suburban retirement community. He’s older than she, they have two offsprings who are young adults, and the daughter hardly speaks to Pippa. Pippa tells us about her life, in long flashbacks, starting with her birth to a mom who was a social dynamo and addicted to pills. As a teen, Pippa moves out and lives a hippie life until meeting […]

My First 40 Years (1987)

1987

Marina works her way up from a marriage of a millionaire prince. At last, she’s living the life of wealth and glamour she’s always dreamed of. Then, love comes along and ruins everything! A starving artist steals her heart and seduces her away to his bohemian world.