Bill Margold said, "The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann signals an end to the all-balling, no purpose, disposable mastur-movies that go into one orifice and out another."
There are no movies made like it today.
Pamela Mann (Barbara Bourbon) is a married psychotherapist in Manhattan. Throughout the day, we watch as she has several encounters with everyone from one of her female patients to a group of radicals - one of whom takes the time to recite the Supreme Court decision on pornography while Pamela is being taken - and even a man who is just sitting on a park bench. All while Frank (Eric Edwards), a detective, films every single second. By the end of the film, we learn that unlike most of the detective stories that we're used to, Pamela is watching the movies herself. With her husband. In bed. The sexual revolution - until a few years and AIDS - has been won.
Based on the life of the real Pamela Mann, who was in The Seduction of Inga, Side Street Girls, Keyholes Are for Peeping and Dungeon of Pain, this found Radley Metzger recovering from the bad box office of The Score and embracing hardcore, but not before taking his middle name and favorite town to become Henry Paris. And yes, that politician that she sleeps with is Sonny Landham, who would someday be in Predator.
Throughout the movie, a woman keeps asking questions of the characters after they finish making love. "Do you think the welfare state is still viable considering the inability up to the present of the system to reconcile the isolation of the poor with the assimilation into the system of relatively well-to-do hierarchy of government, administrators, corporate functionaries and executives and the other white color elite who are the necessary benefactors of these poor?" seems like a strange thing to bring up after we've seen so much on camera that was once kept from public eyes.
At the end, when they ask her why she's so inquisitive, she replies, "I'm here to give the film socially redeeming values."
It also has Georgina Spelvin as a sex worker named Klute and a moment that is just as incendiary and flat-out shocking as it was when this was released, as Darby Lloyd Raines and Jamie Gillis assault Mrs. Mann at gunpoint. I was completely unprepared for this moment and it's kind of astounding that in the middle of a movie that has cute winks at the camera that all this open sex can be so dangerous.
There are no movies made like it today.
Pamela Mann (Barbara Bourbon) is a married psychotherapist in Manhattan. Throughout the day, we watch as she has several encounters with everyone from one of her female patients to a group of radicals - one of whom takes the time to recite the Supreme Court decision on pornography while Pamela is being taken - and even a man who is just sitting on a park bench. All while Frank (Eric Edwards), a detective, films every single second. By the end of the film, we learn that unlike most of the detective stories that we're used to, Pamela is watching the movies herself. With her husband. In bed. The sexual revolution - until a few years and AIDS - has been won.
Based on the life of the real Pamela Mann, who was in The Seduction of Inga, Side Street Girls, Keyholes Are for Peeping and Dungeon of Pain, this found Radley Metzger recovering from the bad box office of The Score and embracing hardcore, but not before taking his middle name and favorite town to become Henry Paris. And yes, that politician that she sleeps with is Sonny Landham, who would someday be in Predator.
Throughout the movie, a woman keeps asking questions of the characters after they finish making love. "Do you think the welfare state is still viable considering the inability up to the present of the system to reconcile the isolation of the poor with the assimilation into the system of relatively well-to-do hierarchy of government, administrators, corporate functionaries and executives and the other white color elite who are the necessary benefactors of these poor?" seems like a strange thing to bring up after we've seen so much on camera that was once kept from public eyes.
At the end, when they ask her why she's so inquisitive, she replies, "I'm here to give the film socially redeeming values."
It also has Georgina Spelvin as a sex worker named Klute and a moment that is just as incendiary and flat-out shocking as it was when this was released, as Darby Lloyd Raines and Jamie Gillis assault Mrs. Mann at gunpoint. I was completely unprepared for this moment and it's kind of astounding that in the middle of a movie that has cute winks at the camera that all this open sex can be so dangerous.