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By Sara C. Medina

Vive le sex hot! Seems Paris is in the midst of a summertime wave of torrid movies, and Lauren Hutton, the onetime Revlon model turned actress, is riding the crest. Flagrant Desir, which has just opened in France, is about a nymphomaniac, the daughter of a solid bourgeois vintner, who is suspected of murder. While investigating the crime, the police uncork the sensual secrets of upper-caste life in the French wine country. The film drew cool reviews, but Hutton, playing the part of a mysterious aristocrat whose wine-stain birthmark takes on a symbolic significance, gets high marks from the movie's director, Claude Faraldo, for her performance as well as her beauty. "She's a pure-bred, quicksilver (woman) who sometimes needs to be tempered," he says. Oh well, thanks to Hutton's bedroom posing for German Photographer Helmut Newton, at least we know where that birthmark isn't.