Clearly aimed, if aimed at anyone, then at a 'midnight matinee' audience turned on by experimental erotica, "Luminous Procuress", like "Pink Narcissus" which came out the same year, came and went in the blink of an eye only to be rediscovered decades later and heralded as something of a cult classic.

Plotless, dialogue free, except for some 'spoken' gibberish, and impossible to describe, this is a partly engaging though, more often than not, mostly boring piece of pop art that makes no real sense and, like so many films of its kind, is also highly pretentious; a home-movie accessible only to those involved and yet, in its wildly over-the-top fashion, it is also difficult to dismiss. Visually it's often remarkable and in the end, like other similar experimental pieces, perhaps best seen as an installation in a gallery rather than in a cinema.

A very pleasant recent find in my ongoing quest to find offbeat films of an artistic nature. This is a stunning piece of psychedelia from the dawn of the 1970's that should appeal to fans of arthouse or the artier side of European cinema.

There is no discernible story here but a kaleidoscopic sequence of erotic imagery along the themes of pan-sexuality and gender fluidity, so in some ways half a century ahead of its time! There is also a a suitably psychedelic soundtrack at times reminiscent of late 60's Pink Floyd.

In some ways this has the look and feel of an art college or film school project, tho the gestation of this work is well documented by the other two extant reviews here.

... probably not, but that doesn't mean that it isn't a lot of fun - both for us and, no doubt, the players.

Admirably gender-fluid and unbound by normal filmic conventions, this is not the movie to see if you are into plot (and, as one commenter says, don't expect the dialogue to help..). As for the soundtrack, you may be caught between "avant-garde masterpiece" and "unlistenable noise", but I got used to it in a way I never did with Goblin's efforts for Argento.

It's good that it's been restored and made available (e.g. Via BFI Player, where I saw it) although clearly not for everyone :-)

Worth a look.