Zalman King directs Mickey Rourke, Carré Otis and Jacqueline Bisset in this erotic romance where a naive lawyer goes flying down to Rio to close the big deal for her matriarch boss only to fall for a mysterious business tough.

Nice on location footage of carnival and Brazil. This bides it’s time quite uncertainly until the epic fuck scene at the end. It exists in the mucky overlap between Emmanuelle and Eyes Wide Shut but has none of the beauty of either. Rourke feels underserved, Otis can’t act for toffee but Bisset rocks and you kinda wish the movie followed her. Chaotic.

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Perfect Double Bill: Two Moon Junction (1988)

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