I had read Lolita before I saw the film and had also read the Curious books first as well. Therese and Isabelle was also a short novel but never read it until after the film...so what was this fascination with Lesbianism and Jailbait Sexual Encounters of the Third Kind? Ok, girl on girl is still a hot commodity..ok, I admit to a voyeuristic lean in that erection direction.
Then there was Therese and Isabelle...Therese is thrown into the pubic briarpatch of an all girls school where she meets Isabelle and soon they are under the covers of discovery copping jailbait feels after experiencing brutal sex with older men and boys, so they do what comes naturally after such altercations...become lesbians much to the delight of an eager theater audience. But...they find more than sex..they also find true love and understanding which for the budding Sixties was a taboo subject at best...
Yellow and Blue, Lolita, Therese and Isabelle..these were pioneering females, filmakers and films that broke on through to the other side of the looking glass of conformity. Underage sex, lesbianism, and multiple sex partners...the Sixties were about to explode with much more freedom of expression and free speech..along with a dose of free love...but the doors of sexual perception were already unlocked...thank you Sue Lyon for giving us Lolita...we are now still blue and yellow...but no longer curious...infatuated yes, curious, no....