Island of the Sirens – Private Collections (1979)
A short film about a sailor who gets ship-wrecked on an island where he comes across Beautiful, Smiling, Eager-to-please, Naked women... and then he wakes up.
A solitary sailor washes up on a tropical isle of nearly naked sirens who play, please and persuade him to forget rescue forever.
In this 1979 erotic anthology Private Collections (Collections privées), three distinct tales unfold. The standout Island of the Sirens segment follows Benoît, a lone yachtsman who tumbles overboard and beaches on a lush paradisiacal shore. Spotting a playfully compliant beauty named Malinka amid the waves and palms, he scrapes away his SOS signals and surrenders to her and a sisterhood of sensual mermaids who draw him into endless couplings. The second story tracks a Japanese youth chasing fragments of a childhood nursery rhyme through dreamlike mazes of sexual awakening and taboo Oedipal longings. The closer presents a wealthy Parisian gent hiring a cabaret performer-prostitute for the night in her private chamber, paranoia of theft giving way to an unexpected intimate revelation. Highlights arrive via the sirens’ sun-kissed abandon and the...
anthology’s blend of fantasy and carnal curiosity.[[1]](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0228149/plotsummary/)
Just Jaeckin, the Emmanuelle maestro, steers the island tale with glossy, unhurried sensuality; Shūji Terayama brings experimental Japanese dream-logic; Walerian Borowczyk adds his signature baroque erotic craftsmanship to the Paris vignette. Shot amid late-70s hedonistic free-love afterglow, the production bridges French softcore chic and Japanese avant-garde. The key location—Mauritius for the sirens episode—delivers emerald waters, white sands and dense tropical greenery that glow like a private Eden. The overall vibe is dreamy, escapist and unapologetically sensual, a relaxed passport to male fantasy where civilization fades and pleasure takes the helm.[[2]](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0228149/)
Laura Gemser commands the screen as Malinka, that unmistakable Eurasian goddess with her smoldering dark eyes, cascading black hair, golden skin and lithe, full-breasted form that defined 70s exotic allure. She moves with feline grace and inviting softness, her performance pure physical invitation as she and the other sirens bare all in lingering, playful undress and intimate caresses. The explicitness stays classy softcore—full frontal nudity, tender mutual explorations and bodies entwined in the surf or shade—enough heat to keep the blood up without descending into crude mechanics, letting Gemser’s effortless erotic magnetism linger long after the tide goes out.
A Beautifully shot film about a solitary sailor who falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he’s found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits?
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