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As the scene goes on, it adds suggestive shots of lipstick twirling upward, followed by the eye-slashing image from Luis Buñuel’s “Un Chien Andalou.” Then it segues directly into a sequence where Sanders witness speeded-up hairdressers grooming classy ladies who turn into cows. Later, Freedom returns to score Sanders’ thoughts as she imagines a typical married couple squabbling in a dingy flat. “Is this the thing they were waiting for?”

But is her own life much better? Contemplating a more upscale relationship, Sanders (or more accurately, Brass) conflates ad slogans, female seductiveness, and news reports about sexual assault:

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So yes, Attraction can be pretty heady. But don’t get too uptight, man. Stay mellow with the movie long enough, and the hippies will break out the body paint, as hippies always do:

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Can easily be distinguished by: Asses. This is a Tinto Brass film, after all, and while he may make bare breasts mundane, he always lavishes special attention on the derrière.

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Sign that it was made in 1969: Uh… see “Plot” and “Key scenes,” above. There isn’t a single frame in Attraction that could’ve been shot any year other than 1969.

Timeless message: If you’d been alive in London in 1969, you would’ve totally gotten laid. But you would’ve been bummed about it.

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Memorable quotes: During a scene at a spa, a voice on the soundtrack cheekily intones, “The medium is the massage. That’s the message.” And as the spa ladies loll about in the buff, Sanders’ stream-of-consciousness voiceover says, “Who knows why people who are afraid of pubic hair are the same people who hate Negroes, Jews, homosexuals, beatniks, and hippies?”

Available on DVD via Cult Epics.