Before she became famous for, alternately, wriggling about in Whitesnake music videos and physically assaulting her ex-husband, baseball player Chuck Finley, Tawny Kitaen was indeed an actress, as evidenced not just by her breakout role in Bachelor Party, but also director Just Jaeckin’s Gwendoline.

Kitaen did for the French magazine Lui
upon the European release of the movie. Two different trailers — one
for the American cut of the movie, another instrumental-only, much more
artistic version for international audiences — point up the film’s
different selling points (extra nudity also graces the abroad version,
of course). The supplemental knockout, though, is a new sit-down
interview with Jaeckin in which he talks about the movie’s 18-week
shoot, its chariot race sequence and how he was resistant to taking the
project unless he could play up the concept’s humor and bawdy banter.
Extra props, too, to the off-screen interviewer for asking him about
the incident with Finley, and if Kitaen ever displayed any proclivities
toward violence on his set. Jaeckin’s classic answer: “Huh. No. But I
am strong.” B- (Movie) B+ (Disc)