Frank en Eva, Living Apart Together, 1973, Dutch Drama Romance, Pim de la Parra, Sylvia Kristel

Dating from 1973, the second of SurinameseDutch writerdirector Pim de la Parras socalled artsploitation films now seems more intriguing than shocking. Although it contains some nudity andfor its timefairly explicit sex scenes, Frank Eva is essentially a portrait of an inveterate womanizer named Frank (Hugo Metsers) who repeatedly cheats on his longsuffering girlfriend Eva (Willeke van Ammelrooy). She tolerates his wild misbehavior until she informs Frank that she is pregnant, and the latterclaiming that she is trying to trick him into embracing the kind of family life he has always avoidedangrily abandons her to move in permanently with a younger woman (Sylvia Kristel) he has been sleeping with on the side. In response Eva takes up with their mutual friend, a more stable guy who has nonetheless long been Franks pal and enabler. Acting as the voice of experience is Max (Lex Goudsmit), an elderly, ailing bon vivant who ruminates about past mistakes and warns Frank that he too could wind up alone