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The couple Sigismond and Sergine are wildly passionate about each other and live in a rural area with their little son. Sigismond takes a business car trip to Paris, and meets and is fascinated by prostitute Diana. Sigismond has sex with Diana. He gets a letter from the maid, and reads only the ending, namely that Sergine committed suicide. Sigismond stays in Paris and has more sex with Diana in her apartment. He later reads the first part of the letter: his son drowned in an accident in the pool, and that is why Sergine took her life. Sigismond takes a car drive, stops in the middle of nowhere and shoots himself.
Following the huge success of her "Emmanuelle" movie, actress Sylvia Kristel became an erotic icon and made several films. She considered "The Margin" one of her favorite own movies, but looking at it today, one wonders why. "The Margin" has disappointingly thin and underdeveloped characters, to such an extent that we don't find out almost anything about Kristel's character, prostitute Diana, except that she gets in trouble when her pimp forbids her to fall in love with her customer. One wishes that Diana and Sigismond were given more time to develop, to talk, to interact, but sadly, except for their two tame sex sequences, there is too little between them for the viewers to buy into their infatuation. Polish director Walerian Borowczyk has some sense for good build up in the opening act, where Sigismond throws dozens of little yellow mimosa flowers on the face of a lying Sergine, almost simulating "facial" ejacualtion. Later, the little son enters the bathroom while Sergine is standing there naked, but none of them mind, as if it's all natural to them. Once Sigismond enters Paris, the movie slowly starts to dissolve. There are some neat ideas (a naked woman on stage, while her body is illuminated by light waves), but the main center, the relationship between Sigismond and Diana, and why he would cheat on his wife for her, remains sadly undeveloped, and thus unsatisfaying. The story meanders and is deliberately vague and unfocused, but it simply lacks that "chemistry" and charm when two people are attracted to each other. We get some (timid) sex sequences, yet even they cannot conjure up enough passion between Sigismond and Diana.
Grade:+
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