Deux femmes en or (1970) User Reviews

After the Pill and before the Plague

[mightyfastpig · 6/10 · 3 September 2005]

I first watched this piece of "maple-syrup porn" ages ago, when my parents got Superchannel on Canadian cable. It was one of the first sexually explicit movies I ever saw, and was quite an eye opener when I was 13 or 14 and snuck downstairs to watch it. Now, watching it on Bravo, it seems rather quaint and mild. You can see stronger stuff on Showcase after 10 most nights.

A couple of desperate housewives, stuck at home in a Montreal suburb over winter while their husbands screw around, start sleeping with the telephone repairman, carpet cleaner, milk man and whoever else drops by. Remember, it's 1970, after the Pill and before the Plague (and Mr. Goodbar), and doing such things wasn't a ludicrous fantasy. Everything goes fine until an elderly fellow dies after a tryst with one of the women, though he had the proverbial smile on his face.

This movie is a visual nightmare, with the worst fashion, interior design and especially hair the era had to offer. One woman wears what I assume is a blonde wig, but looks more like a helmet.

Vintage porn has its charms, of course. There's something to be said for seeing women who aren't gym-sculpted and saline-enhanced, and the direction and music have a kitschy appeal. Most of the men, however, are lumpy, pasty, unappetizing specimens. "Two Women in Gold" is mainly for historical interest as an example of Canadian porno-chic.

By the way, I studied the faces in the crowd at the football scene, and I didn't see anybody who resembled Pierre Trudeau. I think this belongs with the "Howard Dean was in Ninja III: the Domination" rumor.

Very dated, but still a must-see.

[BlackJack_B · 25 November 2000]

Back in 1970, when the MPAA came with the rating system, people could now make those R-Rated films like crazy and one of the hotbeds for the pre-hardcore sex comedies/dramas was Quebec. From 1970 to the mid 80's, they made dozens of these nudies. One of the first was this one. I saw it on T.V. in the late '80s; the last time it aired on T.V. was June 29, 1991, and I never saw it again until Nov 24, 2000 when someone aired it again. This film is near impossible to rent but I'm sure there's a place in Quebec that would have it.

The story is about two housewives who are bored with their lives and decide to deal with it by having sex with any man who comes into the house. Whether he's the milkman, the phone repairman, the mailman, the pizza delivery guy, the carpet cleaner, even a guy who shovels the driveway, all are targets. Meanwhile, we also see the lives of their husbands. One is serious about getting a better job in Toronto, the other is a playboy who has a mistress and later in the film has sex with the other guy's wife. Later in the film, one of their targets dies after their lovemaking and they have to defend themselves for it.

The ladies in the film are very nice. In fact the two unscrupulous housewives, played by Monique Mercure and Louise Turcot, remind me of two ladies I spend a lot of time with. Even the guys have to let it hang out, which is something you don't see in today's soft-core films except for the gluteous shot. Yes, the film's editing isn't the best since it's low-budget. The film can only be found in French. Finally, it's weird to see natural beauties instead of the man-made babes we have to see today. But, this is one of the best examples of what the early nudie industry was and only Russ Meyer was better at it. Bonus: You'll see the Grey Cup game where it was "Rough Riders vs. Roughriders" from 1969, where my city won the CFL Championship and you'll see the only hip Prime Minister Canada ever had, the recently deceased Pierre Elliot Trudeau (1918-2000). Still a very entertaining film, done during a very bad winter; wait until you see how much snow they get in this city.

In 2006, the studio dubbed this film into English under the title Two Women In Gold. The English version, however, is inferior. A number of scenes were deleted (including visible footage of Prime Minister Trudeau) and for some strange reason the English in the original film was dubbed! One of the deleted scenes was the really funny one where Bob gets sprayed with snow from Yvon T.'s snowblower. The dubbed version does allow English speakers to understand what they were saying in French but that's about it. Make sure you find the original French version as it's way superior.

It ain't what it used to be

[MarioB · 1/10 · 19 August 2000]

I was 13 when this movie came out in Quebec. Everybody's was talkin' about it, having great fun relating their favorite gags. My father, brother, cousin, etc. everybody's having fun! But I was too young to see it, because it had nude sequences and it was a 18 years old + movie. Many years after, I saw it on TV. Gee... This is simply awful! And I don't say it because the sexy gags - very boring, in fact - are now very very old, but just because it is a cheap movie. If I was 18 in 1970, I'm sure that I also juge it awful. In a sociological point of view, I can understand why people of 1970's Quebec love it: they have a chance to see naked women. Gabba gabba hey! We just came out of years and years of catholic power over our lives and Deux Femmes en Or was surely a way to say enough is enough. Despite that, it was, and it is a very weak movie, and a technical atrocity. Good theme song by Robert Charlebois. I think that's all left from this mess.

Technically horrible with a lot of laughs

[Soros · 8/10 · 19 March 2005]

Although I rated this film an 8 out of 10, it probably doesn't deserve it. But I really don't think anybody will complain. The movie is absolutely hysterical in the English dubbed version (the one I saw.) And the only people that will ever see this will be Ontarians or Quebecer's... I figure they'll be a bit more sympathetic to my feelings about it.

I woke up last night not being able to sleep so I turned the television on, I stumbled across this masterpiece on Bravo.. It's the two in the morning... so I figured, what the hell..

There really isn't much of a story to this, except two very beautiful housewives sexing all the delivery men (and women) in the city with a little twist near the end.. Lots of breasts and nipples shots, much to be enjoyed for purely nostalgic reasons *laugh*

This film would definitely receive an XXX rating in many American red states, if it were released today. Some might even mislabel this a b-rate porn.. But it's not, it's a comedy. Sure, there's a lot of nudity but ... Well, there is a lot :) But at it's core, it's just plain fun. Nothing to get worried about and definitely nothing to sweat over.

I can't recommend this film because there's likely no chance you'll ever find it in a video store or even online. Maybe by chance you'll run across it like I did., late night on television in Canada.

If you do, I hope it's the English dubbed version... the voices couldn't be any funnier.

Two Women in Gold

[clay-1 · 8/10 · 13 September 2003]

Spoiler I really enjoy these early 1970s Montreal (French Canadien) films. This film shows what happens when one naughty housewife gets a real fun idea into her head and then convinces her neighbour to do the same. Both lonely wives start calling up the Bell repair man and the milk man, etc to come over for more than just a delivery or repair. Soon one older man is smitten with one of them and succumbs to her whiley ways only to end up dead- though with a smile on his face of course. The ladies are charged with murder and scandal erupts. Soon the judge at the court delivers a not guilty verdict because of the fact that it became obvious the man died happily. Now the girls are called "Women in gold" and movie producers like Norman Jewison are called in to do a film on their story; as well the girls get to go to New York to act out their lives on Broadway. Plain old fun!!I also recommend 4 other early 1970s Montreal films: Love in a Four Letter Word, Loving and Laughing, Valerie,and Gina.

An film worth renting only for boomers and elderlies.

[patate-2 · 30 July 1999]

A big commercial success and a technical flop. Many local star went naked in this film including an real-life union leader, singers and a big-time stand-up comic. Trudeau made a cameo at the football stadium. With most of them now dead or long survivors of their retirement age, it is nice to see how sexy they were then before their hair had turned white. Shooting this milestone of the sexual revolution must have been great fun.