Bilitis, Bilitis, DVD

A schoolgirl spends the summer with a couple whose marriage is on the brink. Only, the schoolgirl falls in love with the wife. Meanwhile, she pursues a local teenage boy and tries to find a suitable male lover for the wife, so that they can both enjoy an affair simultaneously. Can the schoolgirl accomplish this before the end of summer? Famed female photographer David Hamilton directed this beautifully sensual study of the awakening sexuality of a young schoolgirl, written by a young Catherine Breillat Fat Girl, Romance, the Last Mistress, based on the French classic Les Chansons de Bilitis. Unavailable in the US for nearly three decades, Bilitis is vintage, French erotic cinema at it's finest.