Blue Rita

This film seems very much like a largely improvised affair to get from one soft-core nudity scene to the next. Some of the dialogue scenes, as one example, have the characters' mouths intentionally obscured, undoubtedly to maximize flexibility in dubbing in lines when that part of the script was actually written later on! The FX are also quite laughable, even for the time. Yet the whole experience has a strange allure to it partly due to the surreality of the semi comprehensible plot and partly due to some truly dazzling psychedelic visuals. The scenes in the jazzy strip club are just amazing, as is the costume design! The naked flesh on display is sumptuous.

I recently watched Blue Rita (1977) on a random streaming site. The storyline follows a strip club owner who secretly works as an undercover spy. She uses her girls and their seductive skills to extract information and steal from the wealthy. Her latest mission pushes her into darker territory than ever before-but can she and her team handle the pressure?

This film is written and directed by Jesús Franco (Angel of Death) and stars Martine Fléty (Claire), Pamela Stanford (Cannibal Terror), Eric Falk (Mad Foxes), and Esther Moser (Sexy Sisters).

This is one of those movies that seems to have at least one or two nude women in every scene-yet it was somehow better than I anticipated. The women are stunning, and the camera work is both wild and fascinating. I especially enjoyed the background music selections, which added a quirky charm to the overall aesthetic.

The makeup, body contortions, and cinematography used to highlight them were unexpectedly impressive. The costumes were also well done. On top of that, there were a handful of action scenes I thoroughly enjoyed. One sequence involving a scalpel stood out-it was surprisingly effective and came out of nowhere. I also thought the mission itself and its execution were solid, setting things up well for a potential sequel... which I definitely would have watched.

In conclusion, Blue Rita is an entertaining blend of espionage and exploitation that I enjoyed for what it was. I'd give it a 6/10 and recommend it-with the appropriate expectations in mind.

Martine Flety plays the title character, the owner / proprietor of an adults only club in swinging Paris. There are plenty of attractions on the main floor, but in the basement is where things really happen. Rita and her bevy of babes imprison various men, torturing them and stimulating them to the point of madness. It's all in the name of extracting money and information out of these hapless chumps. Little does Rita know that Interpol is taking a keen interest in what goes on in her club.

Jesus "Jess" Franco strikes again with another exercise in stylish sleaze. Viewers will be pleased to note that there is lots of female nudity (in fact, one of the very first shots shows some full frontal) and a little bit of sex. (There is some male nudity as well.) But what makes this stand out a little from the many trash epics that Franco made in the 1970s is the fact that he's melding exploitation with the espionage genre, with a touch of 70s era psychedelia. The visual approach is quite striking, as Franco and his crew go with some gorgeous gold and pink colour schemes. The music by Walter Baumgartner is quite groovy, to boot.

The performances are generally amusing from all concerned. Luscious brunette Sarah Strasberg was a particular favourite for this viewer, as she plays the role of a heavy named Franchesa. Dagmar Burger is appealing as an entertainer named "Sun". Eric Falk is a hoot as a "boxer" targeted by Rita and her minions. And Flety is quite watchable in the lead.

You add a funny fight scene, and a VERY funny death scene, to the proceedings, and it amounts to a pretty good time for exploitation fanatics.

Seven out of 10.

Say what you like about old Jess, but he knew what he wanted from a film, and very often got it. Like with Blue Rita, barely enough budget to cover all the doors in tin foil or make the night club look very different from a waiting room, he got the girls, he got them to take off their clothes and he used lights and what props he had to make a ravishingly attractive piece of nonsense. Here is the most elegant of soft core movies that also includes the torture (albeit with green paint and promise/denial of sex) of gents in chains. Whole scenes are shot through fish tanks and although there is some sort of spy plot-line,it makes no sense so can be completely ignored.

Spain's premier perpetrator of permissively pulchritudinous peep-show perfidy unleashes yet another colourfully unexpurgated leer into the sublimely sinister, sinfully subversive sensual bacchanalia of the persuasively perky, delightfully depraved Blue Rita (Martine Fléty), and her scintillatingly perverse, serially sapphic, crank-yankingly lurid yen for malefic male bondage shenanigans, along with a terminally twisted, pant-wetting peccadillo for crudely administered, coitus-enhancing, limbic region-riling chemicals to insidiously inflame the increasingly demonic desires of the sensationally sadistic Rita's cruelly caged, lustfully-enraged male concubines!!! That most inventive Iberian instigator of psychedelically-inspired perversity is at his libido-igniting B-Movie breast with his Bourgeois sensibility baiting, bellicosely bonkers Blue movie boff-fest 'Das Frauenhaus' - why remain so boringly blue, when you can be 'Blue Rita'!