Naakt Over De Schutting (Naked Over the Fence) (Original Soundtrack)

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If you haven’t ever experienced the whiplash insanity of ‘70s Dutch cinema, a pretty good place to start would be 1973’s Naked over the Fence.” – Mondo Digital Except it isn’t. Penny befriends a sexy chanteuse named Lilly Marischka (a pre-Emmanuelle Sylvia Kristel, looking weirdly cute with her short, dyed blonde hair), who winds up getting involved with a mutual friend named Ed Swaan (Jon Bluming), a karate teacher. Ed gets hired to act in an ‘art film’ and brings Lilly, who he is involved with, along for the ride. Of course, neither one of them really realizes what sort of ‘art film’ they’re to be performing in and they soon find themselves tangled up in the Dutch porno movie scene. I’ve been fortunate enough to review several films now starring sexploitation icon Sylvia Kristel who many may know from her iconic role as Emmanuelle and its sequels. Many of those films were released by Cult Epics on blu in a solid box set. The set was a lot of fun with most of them being damn good films that really surprised me.

Naakt Over De Schutting (Naked Over The Fence), the 1973 movie featuring Dutch actors Rijk de Gooyer, Jon Bluming, Sylvia Kristel and Ko van Dijk, was loosely based on a book written by Rinus Ferdinandusse. Described as a “sriller” (sarcastic thriller) this obscure B-movie was directed by Frans Weisz. It features a silly plot, a comic karate fight and a not-so spectacular tram chase all the way to Artis Zoo, Amsterdam. Commentary - this exclusive new audio commentary was recorded by Frans Weisz biographer Harry Hosman. I listened to the commentary in its entirety and after I viewed Naked Over the Fence and found myself agreeing with virtually all of the comments Mr. Hosman made about the atmosphere and vitality of Amsterdam from the 1970s that are preserved in the film. Predictably, there are plenty of comments about the dilemmas each character faces throughout the film and Sylvia Kristel's performance in particular. Rounding out the extras is a gallery of promotional images, a Sylvia Kristel film trailer section (containing trailers for Naked Over The Fence, Frank & Eva, Julia, Pastorale 1943, Mysteries and Playing With Fire), menus and chapter selection options.The B-Movie Orchestra + Interview With Composer Ruud Bos featurette, from 2015, runs for twelve minutes and sees Bos talking about his composing tactics and techniques, his working process, working with different directors and what else he's done outside of working on film music. From there we get a live performance with a full band. A 2014 Radio Interview With Frans Weisz has the director speaking for eight minutes about the producers and cast members that he worked with on the movie, the premise of the film, how he feels about the movie, his initial thoughts on the screenplay and thoughts on some of the other films that he's made over the course of his career.

It took me nearly thirty minutes to realize what Frans Weisz was trying to accomplish with his film Naked Over the Fence. Its idiosyncratic sense of humor confused me a bit because it made certain developments, which I will mention below, difficult to immediately place in a proper context. It was clear to me that Weisz had not conceived Naked Over the Fence to function as a straightforward comedy, but I was unsure what the purpose of the colorful mayhem at the center of it was. Then suddenly everything made perfect sense to me. Behind the Scenes with Sylvia Kristel - during the shooting of Naked Over the Fence, producer Rob de Mee hired a crew to document the process on 16mm film, resulting in two hours of raw footage, never edited, including these fifteen minutes of content with Sylvia Kristel rehearsing her music scene. (15 min).Behind-The-Scenes of Naked Over The Fence is a fifteen minute selection of footage taken from two hours of 16mm footage that producer Rob de Mee had shot during the making of the movie. This clip features Sylvia Kristel rehearsing for her musical number in the film and other members of the cast and crew prepping for the scene in question. Naked Over the Fence is definitely worth seeing as a curiousity as it has a very young Kristel singing in English and just being charming. I also really liked the sarcastic way that Rijk de Gooyer played his character; he was also in Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre.”– Bandsaboutmovies