Sylvia Bourdon
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Sylvia Bourdon is a French
former porn star. She made her first appearances in loops shot in the Netherlands
and distributed clandestinely in France
. In 1975, she played an insatiable mature lady named Barbara in Le Sexe qui parle.
The years 1975 and 1976 proved to be very fruitful for her, crowned with a compilation film named after her; Sylvia dans l'extase. For her "bestiality" scene in this compilation, writers Tohill and Tombs in Immoral Tales
assert that she was the first French actress who agreed to have her sexual encounters with a dog filmed. She also appeared along with Claudine Beccarie
, another pioneer of French porn screen in the documentary Les Pornocrates. Her film Exhibition 2 that followed the example of Beccarie (with Exhibition) shocked many viewers with its portrayal of sexual conduct of sadomasochistic
nature.
Bourdon acted in several horror film
s directed by Jean Rollin
. She made her top international success with Candice Candy in 1976, playing Candice, a frigid magazine editor. This film was released in the U.S. with the title Candy's Candy, where the viewers became familiar with her as "Sylvia Bourbon". The same year, an autobiography named L'Amour est une fête (Love is a Feast) was published. She appeared in her last film in 1977.
Since then, she has engaged herself with humanitarian and political issues, especially became an official propagandist for European Monetary Union since 1985.
In 2005, with German artist Hans-Rolf-Maria Koller, she got engaged in a project of installation
s, named Les Ténèbres de l'Humanité / Die Nacht des Menschen (Darkness of Humanity).
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
former porn star. She made her first appearances in loops shot in the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
and distributed clandestinely in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. In 1975, she played an insatiable mature lady named Barbara in Le Sexe qui parle.
The years 1975 and 1976 proved to be very fruitful for her, crowned with a compilation film named after her; Sylvia dans l'extase. For her "bestiality" scene in this compilation, writers Tohill and Tombs in Immoral Tales
Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies 1956-1984
Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies 1956-1984 is the title of a 1994 non fiction book by Cathal Tohill and Pete Tombs, that won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction....
assert that she was the first French actress who agreed to have her sexual encounters with a dog filmed. She also appeared along with Claudine Beccarie
Claudine Beccarie
Claudine Beccarie was a French pornographic actress of the 1970s.She started her porn career early in 1972 with an 8 mm loop of Lasse Braun, released in the Netherlands...
, another pioneer of French porn screen in the documentary Les Pornocrates. Her film Exhibition 2 that followed the example of Beccarie (with Exhibition) shocked many viewers with its portrayal of sexual conduct of sadomasochistic
BDSM
BDSM is an erotic preference and a form of sexual expression involving the consensual use of restraint, intense sensory stimulation, and fantasy power role-play. The compound acronym BDSM is derived from the terms bondage and discipline , dominance and submission , and sadism and masochism...
nature.
Bourdon acted in several horror film
Horror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...
s directed by Jean Rollin
Jean Rollin
Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his films in the fantastique genre such as the vampire film Le Viol du Vampire and the first French gore film Les Raisins de la Mort .-Early life:Jean Rollin was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine , France to...
. She made her top international success with Candice Candy in 1976, playing Candice, a frigid magazine editor. This film was released in the U.S. with the title Candy's Candy, where the viewers became familiar with her as "Sylvia Bourbon". The same year, an autobiography named L'Amour est une fête (Love is a Feast) was published. She appeared in her last film in 1977.
Since then, she has engaged herself with humanitarian and political issues, especially became an official propagandist for European Monetary Union since 1985.
In 2005, with German artist Hans-Rolf-Maria Koller, she got engaged in a project of installation
Installation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
s, named Les Ténèbres de l'Humanité / Die Nacht des Menschen (Darkness of Humanity).
External links
- "Sylvia Bourdon euro star" L'ExpressL'Express (France)L'Express is a French weekly news magazine. When founded in 1953 during the First Indochina War, it was modelled on the US magazine TIME.-History:...
article on Bourdon (in French) - Les Ténèbres de l'Humanité / Die Nacht des Menschen blog
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- http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2007/08/soviet-sanitarium-redux.html Police suggest she see a psychiatrist or risk involuntary commitment because she complains about neighborhood crime