Delta of Venus

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Delta of Venus ★½ 1995 (R)

Paris, 1940—beautiful young American Elena (England), an aspiring author, falls for handsome Lawrence (Mandylor), a writer of dirty books. But she finds out Lawrence isn't faithful and winds up supporting herself as a nude model and writing her own erotic tales. Lots of sex scenes and an equal amount of pretensions. Based on the erotic novel “Delta of Venus” by Anais Nin. Prague substitutes for Paris as the film location. Also availble unrated; the theatrical version came out as NC-17. 100m/C VHS, DVD . Audie England, Costas Mandylor, Erick Da Silva, Raven Snow; D: Zalman King; W: Patricia Louisianna Knop, Elisa Rothstein; C: Eagle Egilsson; M: George S. Clinton.

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