Véronique Catanzaro, active in the mid-1980s, made her mark in cult cinema with her performances in College Dormitory (1984) and Dressage (1986). In College Dormitory, she embodies the carefree spirit of college life, while in Dressage, she navigates the complexities of relationships and desire. Catanzaro's roles reflect the bold and provocative themes characteristic of the era's exploitation films, making her contributions notable in the landscape of cult cinema.
College Dormitory
This doesn’t have anything to do with the classic 1953 French film of the same name. It’s the story of Adeline (Raphaele Henault), an orphaned teenager who lives with her big-breasted step-sister and her understandably horny boyfriend. She has enjoyed a lesbian relationship with her step-sister but wants to escape the sexual attentions of the man in the house, so she enrolls in a special school for girls where she becomes involved with one of the instructors (Maureen Legrand), an icy lesbian whose jealousy issues have been worsened by an affair with a slutty bi student. Mullets, mucho moussy hair, pastel fashions and DIY synth scoring abound. On the plus side, the boobs are all real, sex and nudity are plentiful, the movie doesn’t do any editorializing about same-sex relationships, and the French anarchic punk band Les Porte-Mentaux make their only film appearance, but this English dub calls them “The Coat Hangers.”
