waning years of theatrical hardcore, this glossy feature has always borne a credit for its director as 
Gérard Kikoïne, a star of the French theatrical porn heyday in the late ‘70s with films like Parties fines (The Education of the Baroness) and Enquêtes starring Brigitte Lahaie. Kikoïne would also dip his toes in horror with films like Edge of Sanity and Buried Alive, both of which betrayed his constant attraction to cinematic erotica. Eventually the film was revealed to have another director, none other than NYC-based distributor and erotica maestro Radley Metzger (Score, The Image, Camille 2000, The Lickerish Quartet), who made this after completing his cycle of classic XXX films under the name Henry Paris (including The Opening of Misty Beethoven, Barbara Broadcast, and Naked Came the Stranger). Metzger's involvement shouldn't come as much of a shock since this feels very much in his wheelhouse, including some scenes shot outside the apartment where he lived for decades. However, the question of who contributed what remained a mystery for decades, with some suggesting Metzger was the de facto director and Kikoïne was on hand to consult and appease the French financiers. Having included this film on his two-hour video compilation The World of Henry Paris, Metzger himself fessed up that this was an uncredited project for him along with Aphrodesia's Diary, and a 2019 stash of photos and documents published by The Rialto Report 
suggested Metzger was more or less the guiding hand. Out of circulation since its '80s VHS release, the film has 
been resurrected by Vinegar Syndrome offshoot Mélusine as a combo 4K UHD and Blu-ray release that finally lets this one really shine -- and with some valuable extras shedding some light on its creation.
listening to Florence Nightingale's show feel a lot like loop material wedged in to pad out the running time. The 
location coverage of New York City at the turn of the decade is priceless here and a great time capsule all by itself, with a cast of industry superstars lending support to the French leading lady who's actually the most subdued participant in the film. Thematically this does depart from the usual Metzger modus operandi, with a final sex scene between Saint Claire and the very underutilized Payne providing a much more conservative final message than all of his other films. That seems eerily appropriate though given what was hitting the sexually active community by the time this hit the screen.
notoriously The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann), this is still the same essential film but with more of a focus on suggested eroticism with lots of moaning and writhing. "Talking About the Tale of Tiffany Lust" (18m45s) is an audio interview with Kikoïne about coming to the film through his association with producer Wilfrid Dodd and his work on the film directing more on the technical side while Metzger handled the actors, location choices, etc. There's also some great behind the scenes 8mm footage sprinkled in here as well as he chats about filming at some very colorful spots around New York City (especially the Christopher Street gay bar Badlands) and working with the actors (like Del Rio "the sodomy queen"). For some reason this defaults to French subtitles, so you have to switch to English ones with your remote. Also included are the hard and soft trailers, plus a locations featurette (2m28s) spotted by Michael Gingold showing side-by-side comparisons of various spots in the film then and now. 