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Brucia, ragazzo, brucia (1969)

95 min · Drama, Sex Film

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Directors

Fernando Di Leo

Cast

Gianni Macchia, Françoise Prévost, Michel Bardinet, Monica Strebel, Danika La Loggia, Marco Veliante, Ettore Geri, Anna Pagano

A woman's frank confession about her first sexual pleasure strains her marriage and leads to a desperate crisis.

The story

Clara, a bourgeois woman, spends the end of the season alone at the seaside, where she is seduced by an experienced lifeguard described as a somewhat hippie student. The encounter gives Clara her first experience of orgasm. She tells her husband and asks why she has never experienced this with him. Rather than respond calmly, he becomes angry and treats her as a woman of loose morals, threatening to take their daughter away. Facing his hostility and the threat to her family life, Clara reaches a desperate crisis.

Full plot (contains spoilers)

Clara, a bourgeois woman, is alone at the seaside at the end of the season. She is seduced by an experienced lifeguard, a somewhat hippie student, and experiences an orgasm for the first time in her life. She confesses to her husband and asks him why it had never happened with him. The man gets angry and begins treating her like a woman of loose morals, threatening to take their daughter away from her. Desperate, Clara decides to kill herself, while he, though he could save her, decides to intervene when it is already too late.

Genres

Drama, Sex Film

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