I really like "
Le jeu avec le feu"-- as
@Eulalia says, the director's idea of a comedy is very different from Hollywood's. The plot is largely, and deliberately, incomprehensible (a mysterious organisation that kidnaps young women as sex slaves for a luxury fetish brothel, or possibly for ransom, or both) but it has some of the best French actors of the 70s (Philippe Noiret and Jean-Louis Trintignant, along with Sylvia Kristel at the height of her fame), acting completely straight despite their scenes and dialogue often being absurd. Beautifully shot and edited with high production values and (presumably) budget. There is a very nice blu-ray restoration, a rip of which I found online some time ago. French with soft English sub-titles. I've re-encoded the clips below as MP4 in 480p (from 720p MKV) as the files were too large to upload here. Unfortunately, conversion to MP4 stripped the sub-titles. Audio doesn't seem to work when streaming on CF, but is fine if you download the file and play in VLC.
Not much actual violence, but a lot of scenes that stimulate the imagination -- the best bits are the kidnapping scenes, of which there are about five or six. Sylvia Kristel's kidnapping is off-screen (we see only the setup), but here is her most explicit scene showing her ransom photo session and (implied) whipping:
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Here are the first four kidnapping scenes:
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Here is Sylvia's kidnapping (or at least the setup -- the actual capture is off-screen):
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Another random kidnapping:
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And finally a taster of what the rest of the movie is like: a sequence set inside the brothel, featuring the three main female characters in various states of nudity, with whipping, a stylised crucifixion and forced stripping, but making no particular narrative sense. Looking great, though:
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