Review of Viol, la grande peur

This episodic sexploitative drama is about the subject of rape. If this sounds bad then probably rightly so - most of the rape scenes have a certain voyeuristic 'quality', as one would expect from a Eurocine production. To its merit, the film does not trivialise the subject or make the rapes appear erotic - it remains realistic and bleak, but nevertheless this is still a sexploitative product.

However, the film has one redeeming feature: the devious episode involving hitch-hiking student Brigitte Lahaie and two truckers. The latter decide to have a go at beautiful Brigitte and, boy, will they live to regret this!