Marc Dorcel’s work from this era is increasingly recognized as a legitimate sub-genre of French erotic cinema, sitting alongside the works of Just Jaeckin or Radley Metzger. The "country diary" trope is a literary tradition (from The Diary of Anne Frank to The Pillow Book ), and Dorcel’s adaptation of that intimacy to a rural sexual context is artistically valid.
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