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4 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :- Dark Themes in the Bright Sun, 12 September 2004 Author: babycarrot67 from Columbus, Ohio
"The Awakening of Annie" is an odd film that tries to disguise its true motive, which is to depict sexual violence. Annie Friedman plays the titular character who is frigid from a rape at the hands of one of the ugliest and most truly frightening-looking actors I have ever seen on the screen. She models nude and semi-nude for a photographer and wears the skimpiest of miniskirts but does not seem to be mentally in touch with the fact that she is a latent tease. After fleeing from the aforementioned thirtysomething photographer who tries to have his way with her, she runs smack dab into another, younger photographer who shows her true love barely ten minutes after she tells him she cannot have sexual relations because of her rape experience. Annie is happy at last, but a very unpleasant twist of fate is on the horizon. The beautiful, sun-splashed photography is totally at odds with the film's overall downbeat mood, and in this way it is reminiscent of a Jess Franco film. This film is very similar in theme to the same director's "Africa Erotica", but "Africa Erotica" has a much more positive atmosphere. Both films suffer from insert footage, featuring naked people bumping and grinding, who have nothing whatsoever to do with the film, and in "Annie" these inserts add fifteen minutes to the running time! This is truly a film for those who enjoy this highly exploitive, misogynist type of 1970's fare. While I will never reveal the ending, it is so unpleasant that today's sugary-sweet multiplex audiences would never be able to stomach it.
2 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :- You'll have a hard job staying awake ...., 13 August 2003 Author: Greensleeves from United Kingdom
This is a pathetic waste of time, a travelogue posing as a sex film. The main character Annie suffered an attack by a client in a former job and has developed a frigidity towards men. Despite this she is happy to wander off with any man she bumps into but becomes hysterical when they make any moves on her. Annie Friedman as the main character wears the skimpiest outfits to show off her modest assets but they don't help her acting ability which are zilch. Most of the film is an advert for the sights of Saint Tropez and Rio including Macumba ceremonies, Nudist Beaches, Carnival and farming(!!!). Even these don't hold the attention and the film wanders off into complete aimlessness, just like it's heroine. Utterly, despairingly, dreadful!
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