L'Essayeuse

[Chris Morris]

I think I have stumbled across a rare little gem - I thought I was getting an innocuous little film called 'Love Play' with Martine Grimaud from 1977. IMDB have that listed with just Martine identified. My copy arrived titled Love Play and with extensive credits, including la belle Emmanuelle Pareze. I rechecked egafd and thought it might be L'Essayeuse but without Sylvia Bourdon. A cross check with IMDB shows extensive credit match including production company name. For the record - credits update for L'Essayeuse.
Emmanuelle Pareze as L'Essayeuse
Martine Grimaud
Liliane Lemieuvre
Jacqueline Doyen
Marlene Myller
Marie-Jose Pontello
and the men;-
Richard Lemieuvre
Alain Saury
Pierre Danny
Richard Darbois
Charlie Schreiner
Gabriel Pontello
Cyril Val
Gilbert Servien
A film by Kortheau Productions directed by John Thomas
I hope this helps the records. Also, and amazing considring I sourced the film from Italy, has an English soundtrack so I might try to put a synopsis together in the near future if anyone is interested

[Chris Morris]

I think I might know where the reference to Sylvia Bourdon comes from. The orgy scene at the end of the film has a lot of similarities to the orgy scene in 'A Bout de Sexe'.
The setting and many of the performers look alike and it maybe there is a glimse of her from that. Other wise you can rest assured she is not in it.

[Mr Straightedge]

Because of a trial during the 70's, all the negatives of this film were burned. The film is considered to be lost.

[Mr Straightedge]

In the cast, you should have the black guy called Manu Platon (he has a sex scene with another black and with Miss Pareze...

[Chris Morris]

He is there, credited only as Manu but the scene with EP and the other black guy is the only scene in my copy which seems to be cut to some degree - it moves quite quickly to throwing EP in the pool.

[alec]

A synposis would be great as it would enable those who remember seeing it on first release to speculate as to whether parts have been cut.

[prophilo]

I have, in November 1975 (28 years ! gee time definitely flies !).
As far as I can remember, the film started in a women's underwear shop where E. Par?se gets her knickers torn by a man (customer or owner of the shop, i can't remember). Later on she finds herself in a sauna where men perform anal sex (fellatio and anal, if my memory is right) which was the first such scene in French porn (and probably triggered the banning on November 8, 1976 and the ensuing destruction of the film). I clearly remember the rape scene between E. Par?se and the two black guys in a white room with a statue of a deer by a chimney. Another first in French porn (raped by two blacks ! Oh my goodness !).
The film totally disappeared after that except for that scene which is credited in another Serge Korber movie under alias Thomas Korber (John Thomas was his alias for "L'essayeuse") : "Hurlements de plaisir" which may have also been called "Sex story".