Not much happens in this movie. They dance, very very much, faster dances, slower dances, very lascivious, very anemic, as if all the characters are in an endless trance. They ride, horses, but especially people, yes, they have sex almost non-stop, the whole film is a continuous orgy, even when they dance, and when they drink champagne with some aphrodisiac substances. The subject of the movie? The nakedness! Or, better said, the emptiness! The men show what they have, the women what they don't, plenty of pubic hair fills the screen from start to finish. You will see Laura Betti, known from serious roles in Italian political films, here old and ugly, in an embarrassing scene, masturbating the main character, Rudolf played by Lajos Balázsovits. In another scene you will see her almost kissing prince Rudolph penis. Actually, the penis of Lajos Balázsovits is the principal subject of the film, you will see that penis all the film. If you resist to watch it all. In terms of style, genre and atmosphere, the film resembles "Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom" by Pier Paolo Pasolini, "Immoral Tales" by Walerian Borowczyk and "Caligula" by Tinto Brass. We can't speak of acting performances, everything is like a bad filmed amateur theater play.
Review of Private Vices, Public Virtues
