French soap opera. “Tomorrow Is Ours”

She was definitely wearing patches on her nipples. I’m not sure what’s going on in the Southern Hemisphere.

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French drama.

This sounds like it would be a French interpretation of the famous Mickey Spillane story, “I, the Jury,” the first novel about Mike Hammer. It is not. Not even close. It actually means “I swear.”

Marco, a directionless recycling worker in his 30s, finds solace in alcohol and a secret affair with older Madeleine. Selected as juror, he must judge a young arsonist’s manslaughter case despite his own poor judgment.

I don’t know much about Marie Masala. She was 69 years old during filming and had never acted before.

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More good nudity and incoherent avant-garde gibberish from Alain Robbe-Grillet.

Walter is told by his boss, Sara, to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eyeing in a nightclub, lying in the road, bound up. He takes her to a villa to get a doctor, and ends up being locked in a bedroom with her. While she is making love to him, he has visions of surrealistic images from René Magritte’s paintings. In the morning, the girl, Marie-Ange, has vanished, the villa looks derelict, and his neck is bleeding. Was it all just a nightmare?

There is a character named Sarah Zeitgeist, one named The Hysterical Woman, and another named The Cyclist. I didn’t see a mime, but there has to be one in there somewhere, as required by the Napoleonic Code. My ancient Babylonian is a little rusty, but I think it was first set into law as the long-forgotten Law 283 by the Code of Hammurabi. It’s hard to read. Most people think there were only 282 laws, but that’s because some of the text chipped off the stele over the millennia.

I do know Hammurabi was a huge mime fan. Many say he went to war with Ishme-Dagan of Assyria because of Ishy’s insistence on speech from all entertainers.

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More of Defoe’s caps and clips: Christine Boisson’s full-frontal nudity from another Robbe-Grillet film, Le Jeu Avec Le Feu (1975)

La Disparue de Compostelle is a new Franco-Belgian television series.

Five years ago, Emma Vivian disappeared. Emma’s childhood friend, a detective, re-opens the investigation because a new element has just emerged, upsetting her understanding of “The Case of the missing woman from Compostela.”

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French drama, known in English as Playing With Fire. It was written and directed by the noted intellectual and pervert, Alain Robbe-Grillet, author of the notorious bore-fest, Last Year at Marienbad (1961). His works are cerebral and often dull, but they are also intentionally transgressive and sometimes sexually explicit. He was really into bondage and sadism. For reasons mysterious to me, he was popular with the counterculture in the hippie era and was a Grove Press darling.

There are many filmmakers who make incomprehensible films, but his works are so non-linear that you can’t even create a comprehensible summary. Imagine if Godard was a masturbating madman, and you have Alain Robbe-Grillet.

Some stuff happens in this film, and then some vaguely related stuff happens, followed by some unrelated stuff. Then there’s a mental health clinic which is actually a sex dungeon, a hallway with too many doors. You know – usual avant-garde crap.

I guess I’m forever stuck in the derriere-garde.

Despite what I wrote above, this film is worth a look, since it contains an all-time championship full-frontal performance from Christine Boisson.

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I had the same thought as the Boobie Blog guy: “Maxim still exists?”

He said:

Renee Olstead showing cleavage in a lace top while attending The MAXIM Hot 100 30th Anniversary and issue release party in Los Angeles!

Wow, can’t believe MAXIM is still making hot 100 lists and generally.. is still existing.

I was curious to see who is #1 on a Maxim Hot 100 list in 2025 and its… 61-year old Elle Macpherson.

Seems about right. How are they still existing again?

You’d think there would be a wardrobe mishap somewhere, but I didn’t see one. There are about 50 pics here.

Drunken Stepfather’s remarks are here.

Here are two dozen pics of Kourtney romping in the surf.

Sample:

If you are interested in Drunken Stepfather’s jaded remarks, they are here.