A Very Special Woman (1979) User Reviews

Despite title, not a particularly special film

[John_Mclaren · 5/10 · 30 January 2009]

Karin Schubert and Jean-Marie Pallardy star in this rather bland piece of late 1970s exploitation. It is one of those softcore flicks that gets re-circulated under different titles, in Germany going by the name of "Aus liebe weg vom Stoff" and most recently (courtesy of Audi Film) "Liebesrausch".

It tells the tale of Yasmine (Schubert) who is the eponymous heroine (and heroin addict) who is pursued by a bunch of not very serious seeming hoods to somewhere in Greece. She finds love and tries to get off the skunk.

It is a standard piece of Eurotica. Schubert looks good and is naked in Pallardy's clinch for several scenes of the flick. Most of these scenes are rolling beaches/water exercises which we have seen before. There is too little of the other women in the film as almost all of it is a platform for Schubert (which is not necessarily a bad thing).

The best scene remains when one of the hoods grabs the unmatchable Brigitte Lahaie (woefully under-utilised here) and her naked friend by the hair. Sadly we don't see anything of them after this which is a real downer.

So a mid-range effort that you wont regret seeing- but which I wouldn't go out of my way to secure.

Surprising similarities to The Last Seduction

[SMK-4 · 5/10 · 24 May 1999]

The storyline of this semi-porno has surprisingly many similarities to The Last Seduction. The tone of the film is very different though, and the leading female character is much less in control here. Unsurprisingly, and rather sickeningly, Jean-Marie Pallardy wrote himself yet another good-guy role where he gets to hump the female lead.

Some of the sex scenes with Karin Schubert go pretty far, so that one may wonder whether this was perhaps made in two versions. Still, it is generally believed that she turned to hardcore porn only about 5 years later.

Fans of Brigitte Lahaie will be disappointed to hear that she is only given very little screen time in a minor role.

Karin is really perfect

[ates-2 · 10/10 · 8 November 1999]

Firt I watched this film in 1985 and it is really perfect. Love scenes are so close to real I think they did it. Karin is doin good. I think there may be a hard version of this film because they are really making love. Unfortunately I couldn't find this movie in Video Casette. If anyone have this film please e-mail me. I want a good copy of this film I have a bad copy of this. If anyone want to watch a real erotic film I strongly recommend this film.