Pauline at the Beach
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Movie Reviews of Pauline at the Beach
Movie Review: Very frightening censorship! Has '1984' already happened?
Summary: 1 Stars
'Wag the dog' was a film that everybody thought was just another comedy, more or less. This edition of 'Pauline at the Beach' may make some people think otherwise (provided they read this review).Towards the end of the first quarter of the film, Pauline wanders around the house and steps up to a window and peeks in. There she sees her older female friend lying stark naked in the arms of a man Pauline also knows. You see a full frontal nudity in the film here - that is, if you saw the film when it premiered in Europe, as I did.
On this DVD however, you will see a blanket covering the lower halves of the bodies, taking away all the impact of the scene. Now, that would not be so terrible if the cover-up was obvious. It would still be sad because of the censorship, but it would not be so frigtening as this is: BECAUSE THERE IS NO WAY OF TELLING THAT THERE IS A CENSORSHIP HERE! The blanket fits perfectly into the picture and had I not remembered this scene in particular ..... , I would never have suspected any foul play here.
The film is not without interest anyway and, low and behold, there is another full frontal in it - so why did thet cover up this one. Did some rich and influential american mary the actress in question or what is goin on.
Other censorship, like the omitting of a very funny nude scene in 'There was a Crooked Man (with H. Fonda and K. Douglas)', in which the riot scene when the convicts brake out from the wall of the prison and chases the society woman, whom the have stripped (off-screen) and who, by now, is nude and fleeing - everything filmed from far away as not to be speculative but still possible to make out - when such a scene is just cut out of the film, you still know what's going on somehow. But this is something quite different! It's really exceptionally foul play.
I shudder at what will be happening in the future. .....