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At times the film-makers seem to have been aiming at a piece of period erotica, but at others they seem to have believed themselves to be making a serious drama, especially when the film ends on a tragic note.

Hi-res DVD capture from AKA La ronde de l'amour.

Spanish actor Jose Antonio Ceinos stars as a down-and-out sculptor, whose inspiration returns with the strange appearance of a beautiful, mysterious black muse.

That synopsis might sound like the plot of an "Emmanuelle" film translated to the Victorian era, and the film has indeed sometimes been referred to as soft-core porn, but that is perhaps not an appropriate description either.

The supposedly tragic ending was ruined by the combined ineptitude of all those involved; to adapt Oscar Wilde's dictum on the death of Little Nell, as described by Dickens in "The Old Curiosity Shop", you would need a heart of stone to watch it without laughing.

Although the film deals with matters sexual and the heroine appears nude on several occasions, there is in fact only one sex scene which turns out to have been a dream , and this is done in a very restrained manner, less explicit than the love scenes in some mainstream Hollywood movies from this era.

The fact that it is still turning up on television thirty years after it was made shows just how desperate some channels must be for material to fill their schedules.

Jewel Shepard Jewel Shepard getting out of a bubble bath fully nude and then sitting down in front of a mirror and having a topless Helen Devon kneel next to her and run her hands over her and lesbian kiss her.

What prevents the film from being taken seriously, apart from Venus's tendency to remove her clothes on the least provocation, is the standard of acting on display.

"Black Venus" is not, however, a standard piece of highbrow heritage cinema.

She then kneels in front of him to go down on him, and then sits naked in his lap as he squeezes her breasts and reaches between her legs, all while a guy looks through a window at the action.