Susan Sarandon's Nude Flower Child On Display
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By Prairie Miller
November 15,2008
A movie deemed scandalous nearly four decades ago after Canadian
censors uncovered, so to speak, the nude hippie sex romp on late
night television and put the bare fare to bed for the duration, The
Apprentice (Fleur Bleue) is now in release in a Special Edition
unrated DVD. What has been restored in the 1971 mixed French and
English likewise multi-mixed genre free love political separatist
romantic comedy crime caper, are then twenty-four year old Susan
Sarandon's fairly naughty bare-breasted sex scenes.
In a role that might make a now more seasoned and serious sixty-two
year old Sarandon either blush or palpitate, she plays Elizabeth, a
ditzy, uninhibited English Canadian Montreal model with a weakness
for one night stands. When aimless young French Canadian Jean-Pierre
(Steve Fiset) gets canned for acute attention deficit disorder while
on a day job at Elizabeth's outdoor shoot, she takes pity on the
itinerant slacker and pursues him. That is, until he pursues her, and
then she usually barely remembers him while more often than not, out
cruising around for more sublime adventures in free love stranger sex.
Eventually the two hook up, well sort of. Aside from Liz's addiction
to sexual variety, Jean-Pierre has a fetching, politically
argumentative Separatist fiance Suzanne (Carol Laure), who may or may
not be a virgin until marriage, stashed away in a shabby rooming
house. Chronically short on funds, Jean-Pierre teams up with
Suzanne's lunatic playboy brother Dock (Jean-Pierre Cartier) to rob
banks in imaginative and astonishing ways. And while Jean-Pierre
stresses out deciding between these two women, Elizabeth in contrast
hasn't the least difficulty giddily sampling everybody, and not
necessarily one at a time.
Frequently too silly for its own good, The Apprentice is an engaging
time travel retro-novelty back to when life, no matter how
complicated, was far simpler, without the intrusion of rampant
commerce, congestion and advertising, not to mention cell phones. And
despite the fretting, perpetually strapped for cash male
protagonists, the prices of those flashy mod outfits back then that
drive them to a life of crime, amaze as mere pocket change today.
Somerville House
Unrated
2 1/2 stars
DVD Features: Director's Commentary; Slide Show; Biography.
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Prairie Miller is a multimedia journalist online, in print and on radio.
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