"Leidenschaftliche Blümchen" or "Boarding School" is a West German German-language film from 1978, so this one will have its 40th anniversary soon. It stars the really young Nastassja Kinski in one of her earliest roles as a school girl with some naughty fantasies. But she is not the only one. Her female buddies are just as bad and they decide to launch a business, which allows the school boys to see the girls naked if they pay enough money and if they really pay enough money, even engage in sexual activities. So prostitution is a major plot reference here. but it is not displayed as something evil, rather as something that belongs to the girls' sexual awakenings for some bizarre reason. The film was directed by André Farwagi, a French filmmaker, and Paul Nicholas wrote the screenplay based on Laura Black's novel. I have not read the book, so I cannot say if it is as much garbage, but this film here surely is. The actors are all pretty bad and the way they talk about their business was supposed to seem innocent and inexperienced, but due to the lack of range, it just looks all very amateurish. Klaus Kinski's daughter does not stand out at all and as this is one of her most known German films, I cannot say I got curious about any of her other works. These 100 minutes were extremely underwhelming and are not better than most of the 1970's sex comedies from Germany, Austria and Switzerland with the major difference that this film here does take itself so seriously on many occasions that it feels pretty cringeworthy. You'd better stay away or don't say I haven't warned you.
Review of Boarding School
