A woman whose marriage is on the rocks knocks out a script for an erotic B movie and sells it to Tinseltown, only to see it flop. Six years later she returns to the scene of her Hollywood misadventure to dissect what went wrong. So begins an often painful journey of self-discovery which offers an instructive glimpse into the industry’s ambivalence toward the female body: nudity is used to sell movies, but actresses who bare it all are stigmatised afterwards. A staged cast reunion, as well as interviews with producers, industry executives and erotic actresses, flesh out her wry and revealing analysis of a genre that satisfies an appetite for cheap voyeuristic thrills while pretending to celebrate sexuality.
Courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada.
