WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Neil Welch As a British teenager back in the 60s, it was hard work finding material to fuel your erotic fantasies - Britain was still fairly tightly buttoned up. However, as the 60s became more swinging, so the laces loosened, initially with the written word. Penguin books had kicked things off in the 50s with the DH Lawrence novel Lady Chatterly's Lover, of course. Gradually there was a move away from literary material which was sexually oriented (Lady Chatterly, A Cold Wind In August etc.) to books which were targeted towards erotic entertainment rather than serious literature. Passion Flower Hotel by Rosalind Erskine ( pseudonym for Roger Erskine) was a case in point. It was a saucy, lightly humorous novel about a group of boarding school girls who set themselves up as a rather tentative brothel for the benefit of the local boarding school boys (a different, neighbouring school). This, for a 60s adolescent lad who had not not joined the Permissive Society, was pretty spicy stuff. My copy became dog eared, and took to falling open at certain pages.I encountered this movie late one night on TV and it was well under way when I thought "Hello! This is Passion Flower Hotel!" Although the adaptation is distinctly European (the book is very English), the story is pretty much the same.Don't expect this film to be sexually lurid. There is some nudity, the plot is driven by sex, but there is an air of innocence about the girls' enterprise and also the movie itself. These were simpler times, and by being set even further back in time, the innocence is amplified. It is mildly erotic, pretty to look at, gently entertaining, and rather charming in its own understated manner.And, for me, it brings back very welcome memories of the book.

lazarillo This is is one of a number of German films they used to show on late-night cable TV stations a lot in the late 70's and early 80's. But it's different than a lot of those other movies in that rather than being a sex-saturated, oom-pah-pah scrompfest, it's kind of coming-of-age film, not unlike the American teen comedies of the early 80's (it especially resembles the summer-camp classic "Little Darlings"). It's set at a Swiss boarding school where a bunch of girls decide, not only to lose their collective virginity to the boys at a school across the lake, but also to make money by charging them for it! (This is one movie I probably wouldn't expect a modern-day Hollywood re-make of). They have a surprising (and rather ridiculous) amount of trouble pulling this off though.Even though this movie opens with a close-up of the bare breast of one of the older, bustier girls, this is actually surprisingly innocent movie with very little actual sex in it. It's very dumb but kind of sweet. The main attraction,of course, was Natsassia Kinski, who plays the new girl at the school, who becomes the catalyst for the whole thing after she meets a handsome guy from the boys' school on the train. Except for the topless girl at the beginning, Kinski pretty much provides all the nudity and sex here. She does a memorable striptease (out of an alligator costume!) for the boys at a party, and her de-virginising is the only one that occurs on-screen. Although she was not very old here, Kinski is not particularly believable as an inexperienced virgin (perhaps because in real-life she'd already had torrid affairs with Roman Polanski and Milos Forman by this time).The only other cast member that might look familiar is Fabiana Udenio, the Italian-Argentinean beauty who later played "Alotta Fagina" in the original "Austin Powers". She has only a very small role here though (and, even by German standards, she was too young at the time to really participate in the sexual shenanigans).This movie doesn't compare to other late German-made cable fodder as a sex film (or to Kinski's truly erotic follow-up to this "Stay the Way You Are"). But although it has the disadvantage of being dubbed, it's really no dumber than most of the early 80's teen sex comedies (and it's one of the few that's about sexually curious girls rather than horny boys). It's worth seeing I guess.

Falconeer This was one of my favorite late night cable presentations. Beautifully filmed story of a group of girls attending a Swiss Boarding School. They spend their days talking about boys and sex, things they obviously don't really understand. Then one day a new student arrives, an American girl. The others naturally assume that this new girl, played wonderfully by Nastassja Kinski, is experienced in these matters. There is romance, and school girl pranks involving the students at the neighboring boys school across the lake. The cast is gorgeous to look at, and the soft-focus photography reminded me of the films of David Hamilton. In fact the whole theme of beautiful young girls dealing with the first stirrings of sexuality is all quite reminiscent of Hamilton's work, such as "Erste Sehnsucht", and my favorite, "Laura." Also worth mentioning is the music score by composer Francis Lai, who was responsible for the music in many art house and erotic films of this era. I think "Boarding School" is sadly overlooked. I would like to see this one released on DVD with the original German audio, and uncensored, as I am sure this American version must be cut in places. American censors are unkind to films like these, confusing art for exploitation. The presence of Nastassja Kinski, one of the most beautiful women in the world, along with the appearance of Fabiana Udenio, should warrant an official DVD release!

William Only reason why this film got released by Atlantic pictures in 1982 is because young Kinski was in the film. Other than that, this film would've been lost in the drive-in market (I think it played in 1977 as PRETTY SCHOOL GIRLS in some US market in the 70's). Little laugh and bad dubbing, but it's good to see a early performance from two beautiful actresses Kinski and Udenio (who is in many U.S. films).