Does anyone else remember this film? This is a French film released in 1979 that I saw in the theatre. I never see photos of the terrific spanking in this film and no one ever mentions it. I doubt that the movie is available in video - I have never been able to find it in any video store or in their listings as something that could be ordered.
The director is Jean Luc Godard; it's the lovely Isabelle Huppert who gets a bare bottomed spanking in this movie.
I was made aware of the spanking before I saw the movie. In her review of it, Pauline Kael said that one of the stars of the films was Huppert's bottom! She described its prominence in the movie and the spanking was one the scenes she mentioned.
Huppert plays a prostitute in Paris who in an early scene takes money from a customer but doesn't give a percentage to her pimp. Later in the day,as she is walking along the street, the pimp pulls up in his limousine and calls her over to the car. They speak, with her outside and him inside. He lets her know that he is aware that she has cheated him - that he'll let her off lightly this time, but not again. My memory is a little fuzzy about exactly how this happens but I think he has his driver open the door and commands her to bend over his lap in the back seat. She hesitates, but he tells her not to worry, that he's not really going to hurt her. He pulls down her panties and gives her a few hard smacks. I think that the door remains open.
What was so stunning about it to me was the fact that he bared her - unusual for spankings in mainstream movies. As well, I was seeing the movie with my boyfriend (later my husband). I had not yet told him about my spanking fetish, so seeing the movie with him had a forbidden excitement to it at that time.
If anyone knows if this movie is available anywhere, please let us know.