Pharao (1966)

Pharao: Directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz. With Jerzy Zelnik, Wieslawa Mazurkiewicz, Barbara Brylska, Krystyna Mikolajewska. Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt’s clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers.

“The unimaginatively titled u0026quot;Pornou0026quot; is a passable softcore romp from Brazil. It contains three stories of the erotic, none of which are particularly interesting, but which at least provide opportunities for the performers to get naked.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe first story is something to do with lesbian high school girls hanging out and having sex. One of the girls seems visibly older than the other, and I thought perhaps she was a teacher and not a fellow student, but the plot description indicates she was a student too. I stopped paying attention and missed the ending, if it even had one, but I enjoyed the ease in which the girls were naked before the camera.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe second story is about a man and a woman who return home on a date and shower separately while the other one watches. The guy, aware he has an audience, starts playing with his penis and apparently masturbating. Then they have sex in a variety of uncomfortable locations in one of those montages that were a staple of erotic flicks back in the day. Surprisingly, in one scene, the man starts slapping the woman about the face during climax, and the movie treats this behaviour as normal. Again, I missed the ending/conclusion, if there even was one.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe last, longest story, is the weirdest of the lot, and introduces aspects of horror. A man is imprisoned by a beautiful blind woman who can apparently still see with the use of mirrors. The man wants to escape, the woman wonu0026#39;t let him, so he hatches a surprisingly violent plan to escape – but not before he uses a grasshopper as a sex toy in bed with the woman, using the creature to tease her nipples and groin area.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI was mostly just bored by u0026quot;Porno!u0026quot;, just waiting for it to end. My attention waned constantly, but it does have good nudity, and some not unerotic moments. I just didnu0026#39;t really care for what I was watching.”