The Blue Balloon (1973)
** (out of 4)
Bizarre roughie porn from Sweden has Lisbeth Olsen playing a shy woman who meets a man who she finally gives herself to sexually. The two are eventually married before he gets drafted. Once he's gone the woman is left alone but is kidnapped by a crazed lesbian who drugs her, ties her up and forces her into prostitution.
THE BLUE BALLOON was pretty much forgotten until it started making the rounds in a shortened version. It became known that the producers of this film also made the notorious THE SINFUL DWARF and when that film was released to Blu-ray the fine folks at Severin included this movie as a bonus. This print here runs 71 minutes, which is much longer than some of the bootlegs out there.
For the most part this film isn't horrible but at the same time it's a long way off from Bergman. I think the film will be of interest to fans of roughies because there's some rather brutal or should I say unerotic stuff here. The female character is constantly being abused until she gets hooked on everything she's doing. There's actually a fairly decent story being told here and while I won't ruin the ending I will say that it makes an impact. The sex scenes are good for what they are but there's no doubt that the low-budget really doesn't help things as everything here is pretty cheaply shot.
** (out of 4)
Bizarre roughie porn from Sweden has Lisbeth Olsen playing a shy woman who meets a man who she finally gives herself to sexually. The two are eventually married before he gets drafted. Once he's gone the woman is left alone but is kidnapped by a crazed lesbian who drugs her, ties her up and forces her into prostitution.
THE BLUE BALLOON was pretty much forgotten until it started making the rounds in a shortened version. It became known that the producers of this film also made the notorious THE SINFUL DWARF and when that film was released to Blu-ray the fine folks at Severin included this movie as a bonus. This print here runs 71 minutes, which is much longer than some of the bootlegs out there.
For the most part this film isn't horrible but at the same time it's a long way off from Bergman. I think the film will be of interest to fans of roughies because there's some rather brutal or should I say unerotic stuff here. The female character is constantly being abused until she gets hooked on everything she's doing. There's actually a fairly decent story being told here and while I won't ruin the ending I will say that it makes an impact. The sex scenes are good for what they are but there's no doubt that the low-budget really doesn't help things as everything here is pretty cheaply shot.