Of all the fake movies referenced in several
Seinfeld episodes, one in particular Rochelle, Rochelle is one that actually
looks interesting to me. I usually get a chuckle from some of the silly fake
movie titles mentioned in the series like Checkmate, Sack Lunch, Chunnel, and
Prognosis Negative, but Rochelle, Rochelle appeals to the inner cult movie fan
in me, and I just can’t help wishing that the movie was real and directed by someone
like Jess Franco. The tagline: “A
young girl's strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk” reminds me of Franco’s Eugenie… the story of her journey into perversion, and it also brings to mind Joe
D’Amato’s Emanuelle Around the World. Could it be that the writers of
Seinfeld had these types of films in mind when coming up with the Rochelle,
Rochelle gag? In the series, the movie is referred to as foreign and apparently
generated a lot of hype, but the general response ended up being that the plot
was unbearable, and it was just the nudity that made it revered. Now I
absolutely love this kind of stuff (especially if there are horror elements
fused in), so you usually won’t find me making such remarks.
What do you think? Is there more to most
foreign erotic movies than just the sex and nudity?
