Helmut Berger smolders through an erotic island fever dream where secrets and bodies intertwine.
Helmut is fed up traveling around he world. Coming back from Asia, he decides to stay some time in Alexandra's house, a long time friend. She is living on a beautiful island where she is doing art. From his travels, Helmut brought back some old manuscript about secret rites that he decides to share with Alexandra after restarting a sexual relationship with her
Cinematography
Lush Mediterranean locations shot like a perfume commercial.
Acting
Berger's weary, predatory charisma carries the thin plot.
Director
Tana Kaleya
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Tana Kaleya was a Spanish photographer making her sole feature; the film's visual sensibility owes more to her background in fashion imagery than narrative cinema.
This arrived at the tail end of the Euro-erotica boom, when stars like Berger could still command prestige-adjacent projects despite diminishing returns—it's essentially high-end skin cinema pretending to be something more.
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