Private Pleasures

This somewhat pretentious Swedish sex offering about a young woman's discovery of her 'duality' displays a lot of ostentatious camerawork and arty editing which will probably go unnoticed by most patrons. Essentially a rather stolid reworking of the Emmanuelle themes, the film nevertheless makes some effort with its psychological mystery plot and attention to detail. Occasional sequences deserve a place in a much better movie (a drowsy conversation in the bright sun, for instance), and Elona Glenn adds distinction. The rest scarcely lives up to its rather over-inflated estimation of its own 'significance'.