Didn’t Do it for love

The film-maker Monika Treut has a row offilms behind her which investigate feminism and the outer limits of sexuality. I n Didn't Do It For Love it is mainly a distinctive sexuality and an unusual personaI ity which is explored. The turn has come to a documentary about the life of Norwegian born ex-dominatrix Eva Norvind.
Now in her fifties, Eva looks back on her, to say the least, unusual life. She went out into the world when she was very young, and became a beauty queen in France,
a sex symbol, a second rate actress and
a call-girl in Mexico, a journalist, dominatrix and criminal psychologist in New York.
Except for being an investigation into a very unusual human being's life, and of a different sexuality which sti II is put under taboo and unexplored, Didn't Do It For Love is also worth seeing for the insight
it brings into the second-rate Mexican filmmaking of the sixties, where Norvind was a diva and sexsymbol.
Didn't Do It For Love is a serious and, in its composition, traditional documentary. It goes through the main characte'rs
I ife and interviews with parents and other people who are close to her etc.
I experience the documentary mainly as
a portrait of the human being and human life of Eva Norvind, but also as a fairly serious psychological study. Eva Norvind claims that she studies psychology to understand her own dark sides and her dependence on sex, and also her customers needs. Sometimes she appears as an escorting mother figure through the dark regions of sadomasochism. But if sexuality, which so has ruled her life,
has liberated her, it comes across just as much as a prison.
When you see Didn't Do It For Loveyou realize what an unknown and taboofilled area sadomasochism still is.
ISAK WESTERSTRÖM

Premiärstatus
Skandinavisk premiär: Medverkande
Maria Beatty,Luz Maria Rojas,Hugo Arguelles: Producent
Irene von Alberti: Manus
Monika Treut: Foto
Ekkehart Pollack, Christopher Landerar: Musik
Georg Kajanus: Talat språk
German