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Based on Alexander Dumas’ La Dame aux Camélias, Camille 2000 was made in Italy but directed by Radley Metzger and written by Michael de Forrest. This is the story of Marguerite Gautier (Danielle Gaubert, who died too young at 44 but had a life where she was married to the son of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo and ski champion Jean-Claude Killy, as well as acting in 17 movies), a woman of whom the rumors say “the hills are covered with the bodies of the men she’s ruined.”

Armand Duval (Nino Castelnuovo) falls for her instantly, despite the harsh words of his father (Massimo Serato) and the offer by his friend Gaston (Roberto Bisacco) to show him other women. He finally gets her alone and charms her; she tells him that if he really loves her that he should run. They instead live on love on a houseboat in Porto d’Ercole. Armand’s father believes that she’s using her son; unknown to everyone, the opposite is true, as she is selling off every gift rich men have ever given her to keep their life. The father asks her to leave his son, as he’s meant for more. She complies and ends up with Count DeVarville (Philippe Forquet) and hooked on drugs to try and forget. Armand throws himself into work, which becomes his addiction.

One of her friends introduces Armand to Prudence (Eleonora Rossi Drago) who throws an S&M orgy that also has Marguerite and DeVarville invited. Of course, things won’t end well. How can they, as when we first meet Marguerite, someone asks her, “Don’t you ever come down?”

She answers, “Not if I can help it.”

A movie filled with longing, eroticism and inflatable furniture, this is 1969 looking to a future that we’d never find.