Genres
Production Companies
FFF-French Movies
Toei Central Film
Private Collections (Collections privées)
Overview
Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits? In the second, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers bits of. His journey takes him into dreams, sexual awakening, and Oedipal fantasy. Third, a man of wealth in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night. She's also cabaret performer and takes him to her room. He fears he's about to be robbed. What's her secret?
Key Crew
Writer: Jean-Michel Ribes, Guy de Maupassant, Walerian Borowczyk
Director: Just Jaeckin, Walerian Borowczyk, Shūji Terayama
Director of Photography: Robert Fraisse, Tatsuo Suzuki, Noël Véry
Screenplay: Rio Kishida, Shūji Terayama
Top Cast
Roland Blanche
(segment "L'île aux sirènes")
Marie-Catherine Conti
(segment "L'armoire")
Marpessa Dawn
a siren
Laura Gemser
(segment "L'île aux sirènes")
Jūzō Itami
(segment "Kusa-Meikyu")
Hiromi Kawai
(segment "Kusa-Meikyu")
Yves-Marie Maurin
the customer (segment "L'armoire")
Hiroshi Mikami
(segment "Kusa-Meikyu")
Videos
"Private Collections" (1979) Movie Trailer
