What a nice pair Vicky (Jennifer Welles) and Barry (Gary Judis) are. She's a rather child-like/regressed submissive with a highly sexualized fixation on chocolate (see her crawl towards the beautiful, beautiful candy bar!) while he's a dominant sadist moonlighting as a rapist. Together they smuggle themselves into the households of older rich women to...well, you got me here. Be kinky? Steal their money? I certainly don't know. What I do know is that Vicky's not really happy with their arrangement any more since one of their little adventures ended with their victim's death.
Will their new endeavor be any more successful.
Submission (directed by Allen Savage, which does sound like a pseudonym to me) belongs on the artsy side of late 60s exploitation. The plot is of course mostly an excuse to show us lots and lots of softcore sex scenes, but it would be rather unfair to complain about them - most of them are rather erotic in their own weird ways, and none of them is boring. What plot there is nearly bursts with strange psychology and stranger kinks, all taken as seriously as possible.
The film did have a rather hypnotic effect on me, which I mostly ascribe to three elements: Firstly, the absolutely swell black and white photography that (if you are able to ignore a few moments of "hello cameraman" and a few bottoms of crew members where they don't belong) would be just as home in a less disreputable art house film.
Secondly, the artful interplay between the (improvised, I think) psychedelia soundtrack and the editing and camerawork that is as ambitious as it gets.
And thirdly, the solid to good acting without which the pairing of the weird (pray tell, which scenes are flashbacks and which ones fantasies?) with the obviously totally earnest would not be as wondrous as it is.
The word trippy does come to mind.
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