As the trite cliché has it, a person’s
entire life can flash before their eyes in the moment before they
die. How much better--especially if you are a toned, taut, female
temptress of a certain maturity and a definite heightened sexuality--to
savor a long, leisurely review of past highlights from your erotically
charged lifetime while you recline fully naked upon a vinyl-padded
table and your yearning, inspiring flesh is kneaded and oiled
by the strong, prodding hands of a relentless, deep-driving, hard-gripping
masseuse? Such is the plot of Full Body Massage (1995). Don’t
let the simple brilliance of the concept lull you into expectations
of a mindless exercise in ogling. Full Body is a product of the
iconoclastic and bursting imagination of maverick director Nicolas
Roeg, and his patented technique of portentous, relentless, out-of-sequence
flashbacks creates an episodic whole that is every bit as engrossing
as the near continuous display of alluring female flesh.
Fast Forward to: (1:11) The greatest aspect of
this film is that it doesn't matter what point of the movie you
play. It's all Mimi Rogers all the time! However, this bombastic
baby-oil breast basting is udderly devastating above all else.
Skinfo: This nudefest is awfully brainy, but it
was still a step down for famed director Nicolas Roeg--one of
the '70s hottest directors and still acclaimed for films like
Don't Look Now (1973) and The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976). |