Noglehullet / My Teenage Daughter (1974)

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Description: AKA: Nøglehullet, Heisser Sex in Dänemark [Germany], Het Deense sleutelgat [Netherlands], Nyckelhålet [Sweden]
Scene Breakdowns
Scene 1. Marie Ekorre, Torben Larsen
Scene 2. Pia Larsen, Bent Warburg
Scene 3. Lisbeth Olsen, Unknown Female, Unknown Male
Scene 4. Lene Andersen, Unknown Male
Scene 5. Marie Ekorre, Bent Warburg
Scene 6. Marie Ekorre, Torben Larsen
Scene 7. Lene Andersen, Marie Ekorre
Review:
Mette & Soren are young lovers. Mette's father hires her boyfriend, Soren, to write a script for a porn movie. He wants it to be realistic. Soren discusses this with Mette, arguing that if realistic, it would be boring as it would be about ordinary people.
Mette convinces him that ordinary people don't have boring sex lives - her family and their friends for instance. She spies on her father, his business partner (having sex with his secretary) and her mother (teasing her lover) and gets a job in a massage parlour for research, watching her co-worker giving hand relief to a client and later getting a massage herself. While she is at the massage parlor, Soren is photographing two females (Lisbeth Olsen) and a male in a porn shoot. When Soren presents the script based on Mette's research, it is rejected as unbelievable by the very people it is about.

Self-reflexive vintage porn (about the making of porn) is an important area of the industry. Still, American filmmaker Paul Gerber in one of his Scandinavian entries, MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER, ruins the chance to come up with something after establishing a workable premise. The result is an adequately sexy time-killer.

Marie Ekkore is attractive heroine Mette, whose cheesecake photographer boyfriend Soren gets a gig from her dad (who doesn't know about his offspring's relationship with Soren) to write and direct a different kind of porn film. The assignment is to write "something believable, about real life", a challenge in the face of the hokey nature of virtually all porn. Dad and his partner Jens have script approval.

Mette and Soren dive into the project, determined to make a go of it. She decides that they model the script on real, "ordinary" people, including her parents and Jens, so they spy on them and adapt their peccadilloes to the screenplay. The punchline is that daddy & Jens reject the script, finding it totally "unbelievable", not recognizing any of their own antics which we've just watched. At this point the director stupidly gives us a "highlights" montage and ends the film just as pointlessly as the porn he has been implicitly criticizing from the outset.

One big plus is that most of the cast, with the odd exception of Jens' sexy secretary Lone, is dubbed into English with thick Scandi accents, rather than the usual anonymous voices, retaining some of the flavor of the original. Director remains a mystery, revered for a couple of classic films like SCHOOL GIRL and LIZ, but hardly worthy of the transatlantic genius mantle achieved by Joe Sarno, who also balanced New York and Scandi projects effortlessly.

For the second time recently, I found in this film a demonstration of the truism regarding the erotic superiority of softcore to hardcore in its massage parlor scenes, where a handjob, fingering or merely oiling proves far more stimulating than the tedious "in & out" footage required by the XXX genre.

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