Boarding School
Boarding School
R | 05 May 1978 (USA)
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This film tells the story about a group of girls at an exclusive German girls boarding school. Across the lake is an exclusive boys boarding school...

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Drealmer

I went into this figuring I was in for sleazy trashy perhaps barely watchable junk, especially as it starts off with a bunch of teenage girls in their shared room in their undies acting silly and being giggly, but was pleasantly surprised to find a real movie here. It has a much better title as "The Passion Flower Hotel" and holds up as a nice coming-of-age romance.The director does a great job of taking the viewer through a variety of feelings empathizing with the variety of characters expressing what it is to be a young person dealing with entering the world of sex and romance. Curiosity and desire, excitement and anticipation, nervousness and anxiousness, embarrassment and shame, joy and pleasure, sexuality and romance; all very genuine, never over-dramatized.And it's fun and funny!

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Edu D. Conto

In category: 6 stars. The script you know of the other reviews. The film looks like a teen comedy, but actually is a nymphsploitation. Attention to the month of birth of the top 5 actresses and the month of release of the film. We have then: Fabiana Udenio 13 years old, Marion Kracht 15 y.o., Carolin Ohrner 16 yo, Nastassja Kinski 17yo and 18yo Véronique Delbourg. There are brief scenes showing breasts of them, except of Fabiana. There are also many scenes with undergarments, very sexy. As has been said, the film has a soft photography and reminds David Hamilton movies. It's an adaptation of the novel The Passion Flower Hotel, written by a British novelist Roger Longrigg under the pseudonym Rosalind Erskine. Moreover, the film is tasteful and well watchable, without falling into coarseness.

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gridoon

Switzerland, 1956. Five teen girls turn the boathouse near their strict boarding school into an amateur brothel, offering paid services of "sexual education"; the boys from another local boarding school immediately sign up as clients. It sounds sleazy, but the sleaze factor is kept pretty low. The film is surprisingly tame, discreet, tender, even charming at times. The premise may be far-fetched, but the way it's played there are many moments that ring true. IMDb lists the original language as "German", but the English dubbing is barely noticeable, because the voice actors who were chosen to dub the film have varied and distinctly European (but still clear-enough) accents. On the negative side, there isn't much of a plot to the film, and the cinematography is excessively "soft-focus". (**1/2)

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rlcsljo

This film was apparently made the same year as "Debbie Does Dallas" with highly similar plot lines. School girls form a "company" offering sexual services. Only in this film the girls charge money, not because they need it, but they believe that they should be compensated for their "sacrifice", even though they were the ones itching to lose their virginity. They offer their "services" to the boys school across the bridge, who promptly form a "company" of clients. Through a series of mishaps, no one seems to get laid.This film starts off rather promisingly with the camera focused on a pair of breasts on par with Shannon Elizabeths (not quite though, these girls were real teenagers and plastic surgery was less common then). The girls appear in various states of undress and do a shower scene together. But since apparently they were under age (Fabiana Udenio was fourteen, Natassia Kinski seventeen). There clothes stay on during the sexual encounters.I must admit that this film grows on you with repeated viewings and with time--I dont think this film could be made today with the strict child pornography laws in the U.S.If you want to see some gorgeous girls in their flowering womanhood, this one is one of the tops--despite a weak plot.

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