SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Phillida Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

morrison-dylan-fan With having discovered feature film "Adult" titles for the first time this year, (thanks to stunning titles such as Through The Looking Glass)I felt that with the last month of the year just about to arrive,that it would be a good to end 2013 on an excellent sounding,perverse note.The plot:Being desperate to help out their neighbour,as she recovers from an illness in a Switzerland hospital,young couple Paul and Gabrielle decide to look after her 17 year old daughter Felicia,by allowing Felicia to stay with them in their country house for 6 weeks.Picking up Feclica from the airport,Gabrielle and Paul are sadden to find,that instead of meeting the upbeat and lively teenager that they had expected, Felicia is in fact down beat,and extremely cynical.With currently taking photos for a calender,Gabrielle decides to make Felicia model for her,in the hope that it will help to "free" Felicia spirit.Whilst finding the modelling itself to be annoyingly stupid,Felica finds herself becoming increasingly attracted towards Gabrielle,which leads to Felica to begin planning ways that she can insert perversions into Paul and Gabrielle relationship.View on the film:Whilst some of the more…questionable moments in the movie would likely lead to a much different ending today, (with Felicia being arrested for being a sexual predator!) each of the cast members give tremendous performances,which help to make Paul,Gabrielle and Felica's fracturing relationships a joy to witness.Showing Gabrielle and Paul to be a bickering "old" couple,Mary Mendum and Jean Roche each give terrific subtle performances,with the ravishing Mendum showing Gabrielle to be a free spirit who is oblivious to Felicia's dark,interior motives,whilst Roche shows Paul's love for Gabrielle gradually reach the suffice,as he beings to fear that Felicia is going to tear them apart.Spliced right in the middle of Paul and Gabrielle's relationship, the stunning Beatrice Harnois gives a wicked performance as Felicia,with Harnois allowing Felica's initially harden appearance to soften,and reveal a devilish smile of a snake,who is about to attack her prey.Avoiding the easy opportunity of turning the movie into a sleaze fest,the screenplay by co-writer/ (along with Michele Ressi-who also edited the film)director Max Pecas, (whose dad Marc did second unit work for the title) instead roots itself in the drama of Gabrielle and Paul's crumbling relationship,which along with making the viewer actually care about the effect that Felica is having on their relationship,also gives the more intimate moments in the film a highly erotic charge.For the films eye catching,stylised appearance,Pecas uses the couple's country house setting to cover the movie in warm greens,browns and yellows,which along with creating a mood of the house being placed right in the middle of the wilderness,also gives the more "Adult" moments in the title an extraordinary sensual atmosphere,as Pecas begins to reveal how perverse Felicia's 1001 perversions are.

Dries Vermeulen Longtime admirers of each other's achievements, erotic entrepreneurs Max Pécas and Radley Metzger finally joined forces in 1975 with former funding latter's awesome adaptation of Catherine Robbe-Grillet's pseudonymous penned (as "Jean de Berg") S&M romance THE IMAGE through his Paris-based production facility Les Films du Griffon. In return, Metzger would loan out that film's luminous leading lady as well as girlfriend throughout most of the decade Mary Mendum a/k/a "Rebecca Brooke" for Max's own entrance into the explicit arena (times demanding...) with FELICIA. In France, where l'amour comes naturally, Pécas saw no need for a name change to take the pornographic plunge. Casting aside their repressive government in favor of a supposedly more liberal alternative unexpectedly clamping down the Continental adult industry with surplus taxes and stringent regulation, French fornication filmmakers enjoyed a brief breath of freedom as powers that be shifted between 1974-76 when just about everything seemed possible without the social stigma that was soon to become their part. For Pécas personally, this meant a grand total of two sexually graphic efforts, the other being the unapologetically single-minded LUXURE.Apart from a perfect representation of people's perceptions about Europorn, FELICIA offers the sole explicit footage in existence actually performed (as opposed to body double inserts) by Joe Sarno's magnificent muse Mendum. Mesmerized by her elegant beauty, backed up by considerable thespian skill, a combo all too rare to squander, he was to feature her in five of his finest films. Rumors flew hard and fast as to what became of her after she had ended an otherwise exceptional career by appearing in questionable drive-in fodder, the most persistent perpetuated by erstwhile co-star Jamie Gillis claiming she had married a Muslim and converted to Islam, living a life of quiet obedience ! The truth, as usual, proved much more mundane. Happily wed into peaceful anonymity, she kept in touch with the Sarnos all these years and finally came out of hiding last year to provide an on-camera interview, looking relaxed and ravishing, for Seduction Cinema's DVD reissue of ABIGAIL LESLEY IS BACK IN TOWN.As Metzger "lost" Mendum to Pécas, he (almost) gained all 5ft of Felicia herself, the formidable if fleeting Béatrice Harnois whose misgivings concerning her erotically explicit employment finally got the better of her, bowing out of MISTY BEETHOVEN at the last minute ! FELICIA remains as close to the respectability of "real" cinema she ever got, having been shot and widely shown soft-core on 35mm stock with 16mm insert footage seamlessly integrated for the more permissive picture palaces. Leading man Jean Roche pushed the envelope in terms of full frontal male nudity but refusing to go all the way. He called upon the services of a stunt double to accomplish his sexual performance, in this case Becky's IMAGE co-star Carl Parker.Rare in adult, this hinges entirely on the thespian and carnal prowess of its three leads, additional characters appearing but peripherally to the film's plot, on the surface simply another rehash of sex cinema's staple story of the solid family unit disrupted, spiced up and subsequently reconciled by a manipulative interloper, in this case 14-year old Felicia (with Harnois convincingly looking the part, although 20 at the time) coming to stay with her aunt and uncle in the French seaside resort of Deauville while her mother recovers from a breakdown in some Swiss sanatorium. Fidgety on the film's age and blood tie issues, the English language version omits all references to the character's tender years and reduces Paul and Gabrielle to mere friends of the family ! He's a teacher, popular with and practically stalked by one of his nubile students (perky Nicole Daudet), and she's a photographer of partially clad cuties which excuses the presence of models Marlène Myller and Eva Khris around the house. Providing the best of the non star-related action, both starlets engage in Sapphic slurping at the behest of the blackmailing little brat who has caught them surreptitiously trying on Gaby's gaudy costume jewelery. The only other sex footage comes courtesy of baby-faced wannabe stud Ray Prevet (also in the perfunctory Les Monteuses by "Richard Stephen" a/k/a Dominique Goult who directed the troubled Killer Truck with Klaus Kinski and...Maria Schneider !) as Ronny who's about Felicia's age and every bit as clueless though claiming extensive experience. Educational voyeurism and teenage fumbling can only take a girl so far, setting the scene for Paul and Gaby's initiation of their little niece...or is it the other way round ? The bulk of the narrative concerns Felicia's premeditated attempts at seducing her elders, alternating between clumsy (flashing her private bits) and sophisticated (feigning injury), picking up on Gabrielle's suppressed same sex attraction and taking advantage of Paul's frustration once their liaison literally leaves him the odd man out. Harnois's playful insouciance, reinforcing the impressions she's making up as she goes along, effectively takes the sting out of a character that could otherwise come across as conniving. Felicia may deserve a sound spanking (which she certainly receives, fear not !) but she basically remains an innocently curious Lolita venturing into territory subsequent political correctness would soon deem out of bounds. Building erotic tension with a master's hand, Max almost makes the cumulative pressure too much to bear. This aspect along with the production's overall classiness makes the film perfect for couples as long as neither partner's too freaked out by the underage insinuations that come with the intrigue. If nothing else, the lustrous lensing by Roger Fellous - the hardest working DoP in '70s French XXX films, for good reason - should go a long way to take the edge off, along with the soothing strains of a lush orchestral score by longtime Pécas collaborator Derry Hall. Very much a "real" film with all that entails in terms of plot, production and acting, Felicia solidly holds its ground as one of the finest European adult movies ever made.

olp-15-614389 Rebecca Brooke was in Europe to film The Image, and stuck around to be in this Max Pecas film. Brooke, whose beauty in sex cinema is second to none, is a busy gal herein, but she gets a run for her money from Beatrice Harnois, her diminutive French co-star for whom this outing came in the middle of a brief career in hardcore. Harnois plays a young teen-ager (Felicia) who is sent by a relative to live with Brooke (Gabrielle) and her husband, played by Jean Roche (Paul), for the summer. It is never clear if this is the summer of Felicia's sexual awakening, or if she is already wide awake, but regardless, her self-appointed mission is to wake up anybody who moves. No one is safe around this kid.First, Felicia warms up on herself as Paul and Gabby have a session in the kitchen downstairs on the day that Felicia arrives. On to two of fashion photographer Gabby's models whom she catches getting involved with each other in the dressing room after a shoot, and blackmails into letting her watch the full deal. Next she pounces on a lad about her age visiting with his parents for an outdoor barbecue. Gabby is next, in a moonlight tryst in the garden. Then Paul by the firelight, when Gabby is out of town on work. Finally, it's Gabby and Paul together in a bit of makeup sex since Gabby is none too pleased with Paul over his dalliance with Felicia, hers notwithstanding. Let's not gloss over Paul and Gabby's midnight romp al fresco after Felicia barges into their bedroom. I'll bet you didn't think you could do these things in a swimming pool.In the film's final scene, after Paul and Gabby drop Felicia off at the airport for her flight home, they give a pretty young man a lift back into the city. The happy couple exchange glances which promise Gabby will be a well-used woman in the next few days. We're not sure which of the two is more eager to let the games begin, but her wry smile makes us think the Gabster can't wait to get home so the two guys can get started in on her.There is plenty of real-time, honest on-screen oral sex performed by the stars, and a few hardcore inserts that look like they were done by body-doubles. Both Brooke and Harnois are naked all over the place, which is a good thing. All voices are dubbed, including Brooke, who is the only non-French actor, in a French melodramatic style that you had better overlook unless you want to spend the entire film in stitches. Other reviewers have commented on the lighting. When the action gets down to the good parts, things sometimes get shadowy and you can't always see the goodies. Pecas is too good of a director to have done that by accident. The background is classic French movie music, which elevates the film above its lowbrow nature. This is a decent semi-hardcore film with enough of a plot to keep you interested and actors who play their sex scenes without the theatrics that you would otherwise expect. It has the look of being made by a filmmaker, rather than by a sex director who threw scenes together. Recommended.

sleazoid_express "Felicia" is one of Max Pecas' best movies. A happily married couple have their friend's pouty teenage daughter over for a few weeks in the summer. The girl teases, peeks, interrupts and taunts, and seduces. It's beautifully photographed and executed, hardcore but tasteful. Rebecca Brooke (Mary Mendum) and Beatrice Harnois are excellently ast.