Female Animal

Having being orphaned earlier in her life, "Angelique" (Arlene Farber) has grown up into a beautiful young woman who easily attracts all the men around. Her main problem, however, is that her foster parents don't treat her very well and, after a heated argument, she is thrown out of the house to fend for herself. But as luck would have it, just days before the argument, she just happened to get into an accident while driving her bicycle and was offered both a job and a place to stay by an extremely wealthy businessman named "Count Orestes Medici" (Vassili Lambrinos). Naturally, having nowhere else to go, she decides to accept his offer, even though she fully realizes he wants her to fulfill more than just her duties as a maid. The problem, however, is that Count Medici has an adult son named "Alain" (Andre Landzaat) who thoroughly detests him and is determined to have Angelique for himself. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that I initially thought that this was either an Italian or Spanish movie but, after some brief research, discovered that it was simply a low-budget American production which was intentionally masquerading as a foreign film instead. Since the reasons aren't exactly clear to me, I won't speculate any further. What I can say, however, is that this film contained quite a bit of nudity along with several scenes of a sexual nature--none of which were that particularly erotic, in my opinion. To be sure, Arlene Farber was definitely quite attractive and performed reasonably well, all things considered. It's just that these scenes were too generic and lacked the necessary chemistry or passion to really capture my attention. Of course, others may disagree and that's perfectly okay with me. In any case, I wasn't very impressed with this movie and I have rated it accordingly. Below average.