kapriskyfilms Review of Year of the Jellyfish

Year of the Jellyfish (1984)

Released in North America on NTSC VHS videotape......No DVD Release....

[10 January 2009]

This film was released on NTSC VHS videotape in North America by CINEMA PLUS Video Distribution in 1985 with the French title..... L'ANNEE DES MEDUSES....It had a small distribution in Quebec and the French speaking areas of Eastern Canada and the northeastern USA....There is no DVD version......It was released in French Language with no English Subtitles.....It is no longer In Print and is rarely seen in French Canadian video stores.....the Ex-Rentals are generally poor quality and and the original tape has often been replaced.....Good luck in finding one with "Good" Picture Quality........It was released with a French language jacket with a drawing of Kaprisky and Giraudeau on the front and 3 phtos of Kaprisky nude on the beach on the back of the jacket..........Directed by Christopher Frank and stars Valérie Kaprisky, Bernard Giraudeau, Caroline Cellier , w/ a very young Emmanuelle Seigner....the run time of the North American release is 1 hour 49 minutes............Contains extensive female beach nudity.........Valerie Kaprisky as a sexy teenager who appears mostly bare-breasted in this erotic thriller set on the French Riviera.........This erotic thriller set in St. Tropez involves an unusual ménage à trois: first there is Claude, a mother approaching 40 who is also approaching a liaison with the second and pivotal figure in the trio; Romain (Bernard Giraudeau), a Don Juan who is not above pimping on occasion and who is also attracted to Claude; and thirdly, the beautiful Chris (Valèrie Kaprisky), Claude's sexually fixated young daughter. As flashbacks show Chris seducing a former lover and symbolism likens her to a jellyfish whose sting can be fatal, the scenario is set for real trouble -- especially since Chris is angered that Romain obviously avoids her and just as obviously will end up as her mother's lover. ........Emmanuelle Seigner also appears in the beach scenes....