German subtitles, now dis- tractingly blurred and covered by unremovable English titles— and it’s dark and blurry to boot. This is like watching through gauze by a dim bulb. The fullframe mono presentation seems accurate. It’s often be- tween impractical and impos- sible to get access to negatives or master prints of Cuban films, and the problem must be more hopeless for a politi- cally hot item, even though the rights were licensed from ICAIC (the Cuban Film Insti- tute). While this is under- standable, it does little to recommend a DVD whose pre- sentation is a chore to sit through and sabotages any vi- sual merit. The only bonus on the disc is a German short about office drones, Malte Ollroge’s “Paul Kopinzky” (2006, 5m 12s). The box claims the feature is 93 minutes.


“EXPOSED”


Exponerad aka THE DEPRAVED 1971, Synapse,


$24.95, 91m 41s, DVD By Tim Lucas


The latest of Synapse’s Chris- tina Lindberg releases is the most coveted since THRILLER: A CRUEL PICTURE (THEY CALL HER ONE EYE; reviewed VW 115:66): a film originally issued here as THE DEPRAVED. The trailer for this version, 3m 47s of exploitation gold that gives away much of its actual exploitation content, is included here, but the English dub track is not. What remains is one of Lindberg’s most interesting films, a teenage Belle de Jour about the dan- ger-rapt inner life of 17-year-old Lena Svensson, secretly tiring of conventional apron-strung boy- friend Jan (Bjorn Adelly) and drawn to the darker, older and


kinkier Helge (Heinz Hopf). Left alone while her parents take a road trip, Lena sticks out her thumb and takes one of her own, imagining her first driver (THE SEDUCTION OF INGA’s Lennart Lindberg) to be a rapist, then ending up as a voyeuristic third wheel to an amorous couple (Jann Carlsson, Birgitta Molin). Other misadventures follow, in- cluding orgiastic parties pre- sided over by Helge, nude blackmail photos, wholesome make-up sex with Jan, and an hysterical encounter with his mother (Siv Erics) that sends her running back to Helge. The film builds to an highly effec- tive sequence, nearly ten full minutes of taut, silent eroticism, a consensual bondage encoun- ter misrepresented by the US trailer as ritualized rape. With the exception of THRIL-


LER and her arty Joe Sarno film YOUNG PLAYTHINGS (still


Christina Lindberg allows lover Heinz Hopf to cut the clothes from her body in the climactic encounter of “EXPOSED.”


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