The Gwendoline [Blu-ray]

Director: Just Jaeckin Just Jaeckin

Overview

A young woman abandons her life in a convent and sets out on a quest to find her long-lost father, along the way encountering numerous exotic adventures. This lavish fantasy-adventure, which includes ample helpings of female nudity, was based upon a popular French comic strip.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/19/2019
UPC:	0663390003275
Original Release:	1984
Source:	Severin
Region Code:	A
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:45:00
Sales rank:	22,644

Special Features

1080p Full HD; Alternate US release version The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak; Audio commentary with director Just Jaeckin; Audio commentary with stars Tawny Kitaen and Brent Huff; The Butterfly Effect - 2019 interview with director Just Jaeckin; Bondage Paradise - interviews with costume & concept designers & comic book artists François Schuiten and Claude Renard; The Perils of Production - interview with executive producer Jean-Claude Fleury; Gwendoline's Travels - interview with production designer Françoise Deleu; Blu-Ray promos with Tawny Kitaen & Brent Huff; The Last Temptation of Just - 2006 interview with director Just Jaeckin; Dr. Kinsey interview with John Willie, creator of Sweet Gwendoline; Revealing Tawny Kitaen photospread for French LUI Magazine; Trailers

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Tawny Kitaen	Gwendoline
Brent Huff	Willard
Zabou Breitman	Beth
Bernadette Lafont	The Queen
Jean Rougerie	D'Arcy
Roland Amstutz	Actor
Vernon Dobtcheff	Actor
Kristopher Kum	Actor
Jim Adhi Limas	Actor
Roger Paschy	Actor
Jean Stanislas Capoul	Actor
Andre Julien	Tom
Loi Lam Duc	Actor
Georges Lycan	Actor
Chen Chang Ching	Actor
Takashi Kawahara	Actor
Maurice Lamy	Actor
Dominique Marcas	Actor
Hua Quach	Actor
Chen Chien Chang	Actor
Pierre Bachelet	Composer

Technical Credits

Just Jaeckin

Jean-Claude Fleury	Producer,Executive Producer
Just Jaeckin	Director,Screenwriter
Serge Laski	Producer
René Levert	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Famed French master of eroticism Just Jaeckin serves up this highly bizarre hybrid of Indiana Jones rip-off adventure meets surreal European art house in Gwendoline, a mind-numbing picture of epically out-there proportions. Starring '80s video sex symbol Tawny Kitaen, the movie was both a commercial stab as well as an artistic statement that goes well beyond the bar set by similarly themed films of the time. Released in the States in a trimmed-down form as The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak, the cut seen by foreigners wasn't so much filled with more steam as it was goofy humor, giving the film an extra silly factor that makes it all the more strange when one considers the 180-degree turn it takes at the midway point. Looking like something out of Alejandro Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain, the last half of the picture, set in the fictitious land of the Yik-Yak, is truly something amazing to behold. Half-naked future gladiator women slave over technology right out of Fritz Lang's Metropolis, while others look like new wave samurai if Akira Kurosawa tried his hand at Barbarella with Guy Maddin as his co-director. All the while, Jaeckin films the scenes with an artful elegance that elevates the production from just a hokey romp to a souvenir of French cinema that would not even be attempted in modern times. As far as the amount of skin goes, the nudity isn't exploited for graphic sexual exploits, rather it is played with an abandon dictated by the style, not titillation of the picture. While the flick may indeed be corny, the production values push Gwendoline into a territory all its own, made even more special by the appearance of Kitaen, who's both charming and stunning in her big screen follow-up to playing Tom Hanks' wife in Bachelor Party.