Suppository / thermometer movie

A French classic from the 80's (1981).

The video was blocked because of copyright - moderator

It's in French, though. Back in those times, suppositories were the rule for both kids and adults when people had a cold. So was the rectal thermometer.

To sum it up, the main character is an elementary school teacher who has to face at some point a hectic situation: his colleagues are striking and the headmaster has a flu, which means he has to look after all the kids. In order to solve this situation, he wants the headmaster to be back on his feet as soon as possible, so he decides to take care of him:

it's at: 1:12:58: the headmaster is sick, he decides to rest on his bed. The teacher comes by to check if he's ok and at some point he opens up a box of suppositories, unwraps one and holds it to the headmaster saying "Tiens, mettez-vous ça", meaning something like "here we go, use it now" and the headmaster looks at it rather perplexed, grabs it and says - while he's inserting it under the bed sheet - "vous me rappelez ma pauvre femme", meaning "you remind me of my beloved wife", which implies he's a widower and his wife used to give him suppositories when he was sick. Right after, the teacher takes a thermometer that lies on the bedside table and asks "Did you take your temperature?", and the headmaster replies "I can't do everything at the same time!" (="je peux pas tout faire en même temps!), since he's still struggling to make the suppository enter his buttocks.

and afterward at: 1:16:49: the sick headmaster is looking at the thermometer. He's dazed to note he runs a 39,5°C fever, so the teacher takes the thermometer, shakes it down swiftly and asks him in a bossy way to insert it again "Recommencez....allez!". The headmaster can't believe he's asked to insert it a second time, so he just takes the thermometer and complies, doing what he's asked to do.

@serguei,

As a French RT fan, I found your post most interesting. But, to my knowledge, "le maitre d"école", the film I understand you refer to, is a mainstream comedy, with some allusions to rectal temperature and suppositories, but nothing is shown. I must confess I have not seen the ilm myself.

To me, the best rectal temperature scene in a mainstream movie is in "Myra Breckingridge", a 1970 US movie. In this film, the temperature taking by a nurse played by Raqual Wellsh on a man is more than suggested. Is it an ordeal for the guy or should he be considered lucky, the question remains…..

If you know of others films where rectal temperature is displayed, could you please pass the information.

Let's say it is strongly suggested, even though you don't see the bare buttocks. That said, there's almost a close-up on the thermometer and you definitely see the suppository in the teacher's hand. Funny though that the word "suppository" is not mentionned. There's no need since viewers can see he's holding a suppository. There's also the unwrapping part, which is so typical for suppositories: in some way it's like peeling a banana.

Good movie. Thanks for that.

@Svensson

"Sexy Sisters", a late '70s French/German soft core porn movie has an on-camera RT on a late 20's blonde lady.

Found this Anoscope vid on YT!

She is pretty cute too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_arAAlTlmI&t=1s

@svensson

There's a very explicit rectal temp procedure shown on the movie from Québec "Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel". It's a 1972 movie, from the Marie-Claire Blais' 1965 novel. The rectal temperature scene is some kind of metaphor which underlines I guess everything the boy had to endure in his school run by religious men. I have no link though.

The Emmanuel video was on VK for a while before it disappeared.

Another one is La Chambre 108, a 1993 French movie by Daniel Moosmann.

It's an almost entirely closed doors movie that takes place in a hospital, mostly in this 108 room.

Two men share it, a grumpy old man and a another guy in his 40's who is staying in the hospital to undergo some medical tests because he's a hypochondriac.

A sexy nurse (Grace de Capitani) takes care of them. At some point she's annoyed by their behaviour, takes two rectal thermometers and holds them out to the two guys, asking them to get their buttocks ready for the thermometer and then leaves the room. The two guys, that both lie in their beds, accept their fate stoically and the two thermometers disappear under the blankets. They keep on talking and pull the thermometers out at some point, saying to each other what's their respective temperature.

You can find the trailer but unfortunately you won't see this particular moment. I bought the movie for a few euros on Canal + website a few years ago, I guess it's still available.

@serguei I have not seen that Québecois movie. However I recall that in Midnight Cowboy, there is a brief flashback of the main male character being spanked and given an enema as a child by his grandmother, when he is about to get anally raped. The enema is a symbol for the rape, I guess.

Another mainstream movie with suppositories is La Baule Les Pins. A mother of two girls has them take suppositories every evening. One girl objects and says she'd “been" in the morning (I suppose, she means she had a bowel movement in the morning), but the maid says then she must go twice a day. So it seems the suppositories were laxative, like glycerin, but I've seen the hypothesis they were cod liver oil.

It's not explained why the mother had them endure this. The girls anyway start dumping the hated suppositories into the fish pound.

@svensson

There's a very explicit rectal temp procedure shown on the movie from Québec "Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel". It's a 1972 movie, from the Marie-Claire Blais' 1965 novel. The rectal temperature scene is some kind of metaphor which underlines I guess everything the boy had to endure in his school run by religious men. I have no link though.

Probably I can help:

https://archive.org/details/une-saison-dans-la-vie-d-emmanuel

RT scene at 50:43

Probably I can help:

https://archive.org/details/une-saison-dans-la-vie-d-emmanuel

RT scene at 50:43

this scene is male-to-male, if it makes a difference to anyone.

@Danto The scene indeed makes me ill at ease. The doctor caresses the boy's back before pushing the thermometer in. Indeed (I have neither seen the rest of the movie nor read the book) it seems like some metaphor for sexual abuse… I'm even surprised such a scene could be filmed!

@Danto this is how I remember it when I was a kid in the hospital. The nurse (or nun) would come in befor bedtime. Everybody would roll on their belly & pull down their pajama bottoms and wait for the nurse/nun. She would pull my cheeks apart ans stick the thermometer in, then go to the next kid. Like this movie, there was no Vaseline. When she got to the Las kid, she would re t urn to the first, do vitals, pull the thermometer out and ask if you had a bm. If you said no, somebody would come in & take you down the hall and a nun would give you an enema in the restroom . It was given with a white can & it was really made you poop for a long time.

I've always wondered about all the enemas & temps I got. It was a catholic hospital. Was that common for catholics?

Danto you don't mention a date but I think this was common in all hospitals before the 1970s. Not just Catholic ones

@Jacana

I have not read the book, it’s homosexual themed which is not my thing and it’s written in the Quebecois dialect. However, I have read reviews and the book did mention sexual abuse of the boy at a Roman Catholic boarding school in the 1950s.

The actor in the film was supposedly 19 years old.

@DoctorJohnny2 I see it's been translated into English — this solves the Québécois French issue but not the homosexual theme, not to mention that a story set in the highly conservative, Catholic Québec before the Quiet Revolution must be quite a hard reading.