The Mega-Rare Fully Uncut Sexually Explicit Print

Original French title: L'ANGE ET LA FEMME [Angel and the Woman]
also known as THE ANGEL AND THE LADY

director: Gilles Carle
starring: Carole Laure · Lewis Furey · Jean Comptois · Conrad Peterson · Joe Elsnor · Stephen J Roth

Yes. This is the fully uncut version and it does include the notorious sex scene between Carole Laurie and Lewis Furey.

Of course, including explicit sex in any legitimate film is risky, both an artistically and commercially. However please note, the segment is only a few minutes long and is shot mostly in the shadows. Despite this being a decidedly firebrand interim - which both alienates some viewers while it is celebrated by others - a good argument can be made for its inclusion as the scene does dramatically symbolize the relationship between the spiritual and the physical, an important message in the film. Plus, as a side remark, both actors - Laurie and Furey - were married at the time (and still are).

         

Gangsters, unhappy with a dancer named Fabienne for her unorthodox behavior at their nightclub, escort her to the wilderness and shoot her to death. A man finds her body in the snow and takes her back to his cabin. He is actually the Angel Gabrielle, and brings Fabienne back to life, albeit with severe memory loss. The unusual couple spends time together playing music, frolicking in the countryside, making love, walking through the snow and hanging out with other angels. [Spoiler ahead] Eventually Fabienne demands to be taken back to the city. Once there, she finds the men who killed her and exacts revenge upon them. Then, suddenly, the woman is back to the start of the film. The gangsters kill her. Gabrielle approaches her body. But this time he simply kneels beside her corpse, weeps and disappears. It's a very simple film with a very simple moral: When given a second chance, don't waste it on a dead end mission of vengeance