Anna cuisses entrouvertes

Since it was shot on film, ANNA (aka JOY) emerges as better-than-usual among Jose Benazeraf's porn output late in his career. What it lacks in the style and story values of his classic '60s (soft) films, it makes up for in explicit eroticism essayed by beautiful actresses.

Chief amongst these is Brigitte Lahaie, red hot in a 30-minute troilism sequence set in a bar, which opens the film. It convincingly taps the fetish of "sex in public places", as both Lahaie and a patrician looking femme wearing a pearl necklace get down almost surreptitiously with some lucky guy.

The tag-team vignette format has Karine Gambier taking over center stage for the next lengthy segment, set glamorously in a country home location as two workmen rape her.

Less familiar, but highly attractive women (including German import Claudia Mehringer), wrap up the proceedings with equally stimulating scenes set at the same home. Benazeraf is careful to keep his movie visually interesting, an item he was to abandon when switching to more claustrophobic video shoots in the '80s.