Neither hard nor softcore. Yugoslav filmmaker Dusan Makavejev's first pic in the West, is provocative but also arbitrary.

Potentially one of the most scandalous films ever made -- except that it has been little seen outside France and has not aged well.

The over-all work remains a courageous example of a personal kind of film making that, to me, leads nowhere.

For all its depravity, the movie can be gorgeous...