Every Afternoon (1974)
** (out of 4)
Mix of melodrama and sex/nudity from director Joseph W. Sarno takes place in a Copenhagen brother being ran by Aunt Margareta (Diane Dors). Inside the walls the main story focuses on two orphan sisters who find themselves living two different lives with one quickly falling in love with a man. This film, also known as Swedish WILDCATS, isn't really something that's going to appeal to too many people. I guess fans of Sarno will want to take a look at it but I'm willing to guess that the majority of viewers are going to be fans of Christina Lindberg. Obviously she's such a sex goddess that her fans are going to watch anything she's in but sadly she has a very small part here so her fans will probably be disappointed. As for the film itself, I think it's obvious that Sarno wanted to be the Douglas Sirk of sexploitation pictures. There's no question that he has a certain talent in making these sex pictures look a lot better than they probably deserve to be but at the same time the melodrama is just so dry and boring that it's pretty hard to really care about anything that's going on. The love stories involving the sisters really aren't that interesting and even worse is that the film really doesn't have much plot anyways. The performances are pretty much above average for this type of film and that includes Dors who really makes her character a lot more entertaining than it deserved to be since it's pretty one-note. EVERY AFTERNOON really isn't going to appeal to many people but it's slightly well-made and has some nudity to help keep it moving along.
