Fred Lincoln's "Clinique" is a porn comedy, made in France back to back with two other videos: "The Contessa" and "Last Rumba in Paris", with nearly identical international casts.
Lincoln has a great deal of fun mixing and matching many fetishes in depicting a French mental hospital where the inmates take over, impersonating doctors and shrinks.
Chief mischief maker is played by Christina Bell in a NonSex role as a shrink who is actually schizo, frequently conversing with her alter ego in the mirror. With protesters marching threateningly outside the hospital (and all shouting complaints in untranslated French), she countermands an order to have all the mental patients transferred to another location, and with the staff leaving takes over and installs those nutcases as the new staff of doctors and nurses.
They're made up of a motley group of characters, all certifiable, played by Mike Horner, Victoria Paris, Tracey Adams and Laura Valerie.
Their antics are funny in broad slapstick favored by director Lincoln, and matched by the goofiness of their new patients. Jamie Gillis gives a fine performance portraying a famous erotic author who is exceedingly pretentious, but has lost his creativity; Porsche Lynn is a call girl whose busy life has caused her to lose any sensitivity (no orgasms); Bionca and Jon Dough are a couple in need of sex therapy and familiar Euro porn actor Roberto Malone has lost his voice (avoiding any problem with English dialogue).
The crazy comedy is fun to watch, enhanced by the kinks, with Porsche inevitably doing her famous dominatrix shtick and Gillis is perfect casting when he finds his feminine side (and begins cross-dressing) after "doctor" Horner starts treating him with female hormones.
Upshot of all the craziness is that the patients end up appreciative of the care (goofy and even dangerous as it was) the care they were given by the lunatics, and Gillis even elects to stay in the asylum, having found a happy home. Final line is delivered by Porsche as she says goodbye to him (and to the viewer): "When you write about them, be kind", a grace note to a mad movie with a heart.
Lincoln has a great deal of fun mixing and matching many fetishes in depicting a French mental hospital where the inmates take over, impersonating doctors and shrinks.
Chief mischief maker is played by Christina Bell in a NonSex role as a shrink who is actually schizo, frequently conversing with her alter ego in the mirror. With protesters marching threateningly outside the hospital (and all shouting complaints in untranslated French), she countermands an order to have all the mental patients transferred to another location, and with the staff leaving takes over and installs those nutcases as the new staff of doctors and nurses.
They're made up of a motley group of characters, all certifiable, played by Mike Horner, Victoria Paris, Tracey Adams and Laura Valerie.
Their antics are funny in broad slapstick favored by director Lincoln, and matched by the goofiness of their new patients. Jamie Gillis gives a fine performance portraying a famous erotic author who is exceedingly pretentious, but has lost his creativity; Porsche Lynn is a call girl whose busy life has caused her to lose any sensitivity (no orgasms); Bionca and Jon Dough are a couple in need of sex therapy and familiar Euro porn actor Roberto Malone has lost his voice (avoiding any problem with English dialogue).
The crazy comedy is fun to watch, enhanced by the kinks, with Porsche inevitably doing her famous dominatrix shtick and Gillis is perfect casting when he finds his feminine side (and begins cross-dressing) after "doctor" Horner starts treating him with female hormones.
Upshot of all the craziness is that the patients end up appreciative of the care (goofy and even dangerous as it was) the care they were given by the lunatics, and Gillis even elects to stay in the asylum, having found a happy home. Final line is delivered by Porsche as she says goodbye to him (and to the viewer): "When you write about them, be kind", a grace note to a mad movie with a heart.