Top Model (1987) (DVD Review)
Directed By: Mario Gariazzo
Starring: Florence Guérin, Marino Masé, Martine Brochard
Rated: UR/Region: 0/1:33/Number of disc: 1
Available from One 7 Movies
Nadine (Florence Guérin) is a breathtaking and astonishingly sensual fashion photographer who gets lured into accepting a lingerie photo-shoot in the villa of the mysterious Victor Schneider. After the models and the crew leave the villa, only Nadine and Victor stay behind. As the night shrouds the villa with its thick shadows, Victor offers Nadine a weird proposal. Would she dare to put her own life at stake in a chess game? If he win, she loses every right over her body and life. If Nadine does, Victor will kill himself. Thus begins a long night of sex, lust, desire, fear and… death.
Top Model is a crime film! Its a romance film! It in someways is an erotic film! It just isn’t a Chuck Conry type film and I’m afraid because of that I’ll have to suggest most of you take a pass on this one. We have a film here that’s best element is tossing attractive women at us. I wasn’t all that interested in the plot and I found part of it to drag and be painfully slow. It is a bit of a different plot, but different isn’t always the best plot if you really break things down. I wanted to like this movie, but there was just too much going against it that I just couldn’t.
The film takes a bit of a cinematic poetic attempt at storytelling. I don’t think it really works out that well, but there are some none-typical things involved in the story that you could perhaps call artsy at times. The film has a way of losing you based off the pace and I do think had they really tried to spice things up with something besides women we’d have a much better film overall on our hands. If you like hot women and odd plots you could perhaps find a good time to be had here. I think it just wasn’t for me.
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