Beals has not done much nudity in her long career. She used a body double in The Bride, she used camera angles to avoid nudity in Vampire’s Kiss, and employed a combination of doubles and camera angles to avoid nudity in her scenes in The L-Word.
She did take her clothes off for the legendary Nouvelle Vague director Claude Chabrol in Dr. M, but very few people have seen that film, and I don’t think it has ever been released in HD.
Film clip here
The film?
Chabrol had been highly respected as a film critic and ground-breaking director from the late 1950s until the late 1970s, but by the time he made this film there was little enthusiasm for his new projects. Dr. M is rated in the 4s at IMDb, and the critics basically ripped Chabrol a new one. For example:
This is a standard-grade, low-budget European B movie. The plotting is absurd (with anachronistic elements; though the film is set in the future, the Berlin Wall has not yet come down); the stars — including the still fetching Jennifer Beals and the usually cool Alan Bates (doing what seems like an eccentric imitation of Albert Finney doing Hercule Poirot) — either overact or sleepwalk; and the pacing is lethargic verging on comatose.
I think that review (a C-) was much too kind. I don’t think I’ve ever seen worse acting in any film, perhaps because Chabrol was working with English speakers. The direction is not much better. I’m not a huge fan of Chabrol’s best films (I’ve described him as Hitchcock without the talent), but this one is just … I’m seeking the right word, and I think it is “dreadful.”
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Jennifer Beals’ nudography:
She did do one other honest-to-god nude scene with her breasts and face in the same frame in that immortal cinema treasure, The Prophecy II (1997)
This butt may or may not be hers in Blood and Concrete (1991). I think it probably is.
