Réalisation:
Just JaeckinMusique:
Pierre BacheletActeurs·trices:
Tawny Kitaen, Brent Huff, Zabou Breitman, Bernadette Lafont, Vernon Dobtcheff, Dominique Marcas, Georges Lycan, Jean Rougerie, Takashi Kawahara (plus)Résumés(1)
Décidée à retrouver son père disparu, parti en quête d'un papillon rare, Gwendoline se lance à sa recherche avec l'aide de Beth, sa demoiselle de compagnie. Parvenues dans un port malfamé de Chine, les deux jeunes femmes sont kidnappées par des truands, puis libérées par un aventurier nommé Willard. Ce dernier accepte alors d'accompagner Gwendoline et Beth dans un long périple qui les conduira jusqu'à la mystérieuse contrée de Yik-Yak. Là-bas, au cœur d'un volcan, une reine cruelle et tyrannique dirige d'une main de fer une armée d'amazones… (Le Chat qui Fume)
(plus)Critiques (1)
Gwendoline wants to be a mix of Barbarella and Indiana Jones, but the result is dull nonsense that is neither adventurous nor erotic, and also lacks exaggeration and, despite a sizable budget, capable actors and artists behind the camera. Just Jaeckin was rather fortunate to release the film Emmanuelle at the right time, as it became a global sensation, though it definitely did not possess any outstanding directorial qualities. In Gwendoline, this is brought to mind by the futile action scenes. Taken as a whole, unfortunately, the film is not dumb enough to be funny, but only tiresome, sterile and, furthermore, offensive in its antediluvian treatment of gender. Today, Gwendoline can serve only as a complementary work to the new version of Tomb Raider. Both pictures have essentially identical storylines in which a young woman sets out on the trail of her lost father to an exotic land, where she half coerces cooperation from a local hunk, who eventually becomes her ally. However, in filling out the details and the conceptualisation of the characters, the two films could not be farther apart. While the action-adventure Tomb Raider with the wonderfully charismatic and physically fit Alicia Vikander and the truly masculine Daniel Wu stands completely outside of gender and racial formulas, Gwendoline is a dullchick flickbased on formulas and prejudices to such an extent that it contains nothing more than that.
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