When all you have is a hammer
Tim Mielants’ De Patrick is a film about loss that happens to be set in a naturist camp
Daughter of the Sun. Diary of a Nudist. Educating Julie. Goldilocks and the Three Bares. The Bashful Bikini. Girls Come Too. Blaze Starr Goes Nudist. Gentlemen Prefer Nature Girls. My Bare Lady.
Virtually all American feature films with nudist storylines, from the 1930s to the present (with the possible exception of 1933’s This Nude World, written by lesbian author and upstate New York nudist retreat owner Jan Gay), have been “nudie cutie” exploitation films, primarily appealing to the desires of a heterosexual male audience. These films suggest that nudist camps are overflowing with nubile young women who welcome our gaze as they slather on sunscreen and slap around volleyballs. The plots of these movies often follow a familiar sequence of events. A nervous, skeptical young woman is reluctantly dragged to a nudist camp by her insistent husband or boyfriend. A female university student is encouraged by her male professor to write an essay on nudism. A newspaper editor sends his…
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