In suburban Montreal, housewives Fernande (Monique Mercure) and Violette (Louise Turcot) become increasingly bored and irritated when their husbands (Marcel Sabourin and Donald Pilon) prove to be perennially absent and absorbed in other interests. After reading a book on sexual liberation, they decide to seduce men who deliver or work in the neighbourhood, including the milkman, a carpet cleaner and a municipal worker. After one of the men dies following the lovemaking, a comic investigation and trial ensues. The women are acquitted and become celebrities.
Deux femmes en or, like Denis Héroux’s 1968 box-office hit
Valérie, is a classic example of the commercially successful soft-core pornographic films (
maple syrup porno) produced in Quebec in the late sixties and early seventies. Like the others, it is mildly erotic and comic, but ultimately morally conservative and sentimental. Enormously successful, it was reportedly seen by one third of Québécois.
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