Saturday, October 18, 2014

Montreal teacher fired for 70s Euro softcore past

  Jacqueline Laurent-Auger, now 73, has been fired from teaching at posh Brebeuf School where she taught theatre for 15 years because she appeared nude in a few risque European films in the 70s, although never - from what we can see - doing anything particularly graphic on camera.
   Judging from her IMDB page, Laurent  - who is from Quebec - first appeared in TV movies at around age 27, in 1969, transitioning to more risque films three years later with Dany La Ravageuse where - in this bits we saw - she appears fully-frontally naked and smooches.
   She's naked (although always wearing a thick swathe of lower-body fur) in Journal Intime d'un nyphomane (Diary of a Nymphomaniac 1973) but only a few minutes of that film are easily found so we can't evaluate her entire body of work.
  Perhaps her best-known work was shot when she was aged 33 to 38, notably in a pair of Swedish films and one made in France: Ta Mej i Dalen (Country Life 1977) Nathalie Escape from Hell (1978) and Swedish Sex Games (1975).
  Laurent had large roles, suggesting that she was near the top of her Euro-pulp film hierarchy.
   As you can see in the collage of images from her Swedish farm drama, Laurent was called on to show some acting chops while lesser actors were designated for the graphic sex scenes involving penetration and oral sex.
   In the climactic scene (see collage) Laurent changes her mind about killing her cheating boyfriend in an epiphany expressed through extensive facial contortions.
   Naughty boyfriend then comes down, runs his fingers over furry lower mane and they hump.
   The dirty bits aren't shown up close so the penetrative plausible deniability remains intact.
   In Swedish Sex Games she is similarly emotionally abused and even begs on her knees naked for her loutish drunken wide-lapelled curly-haired Swedish hunk to keep her. Concealed humping and subsequent rejection ensues.
   But once again, her scenes are far from graphic.
   There's plenty of real genuine dramatic fully-clothed acting scenes to round the business out, so let's say it's at least 50 percent acting and 50 percent sex-related titillation.
  A 36-year-old Laurent doesn't strip down a whole lot from what I can see in her prominent but relatively-tame role as a Nazi dominatrix in Nathalie Fugitive from Hell (1978) except for a scene where a prisoner touches her boobs and Laurent slaps her. Laurent stands around brandishing a whip and sporting the standard-issue sexy S and M kit (pts.  1,and 2)
    She told the journal de Montreal that she did the films because she the money at the time.
    But she offered a more spirited defence to Radio Canada. 
   "I contributed to moral emancipation and the fact that young people enjoy so much freedom of expression these days is partly because of the path that men and women like myself opened."
   Another arts prof made the point in the same article that it's difficult for an actor to become a teacher because the two worlds have different ethical codes. "In art anything goes," said Lucie Villeneuve of UQAM.
   Someone get a film-festival going in her honour please.  Impresarios, get on it! 

3 comments:

  1. La Belle Province:
    Honor thy ancestry. No matter their profession, they made us proud.

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  2. COMMENT VIA SETH:

    Re that teacher fired for being in soft-core porn, have you heard of another Mtl movie connection?

    Eliza's Horoscope, 1975, features Tommy Lee Jones as an Indian in Mtl. Some scenes are on Mt. Royal and at Kanesatake. I think Habitat 67 might be in there, too.

    Eliza's Horoscope .

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