[1] However, after Donner complained about the decision of the board, the tax was reduced to 10 percent and cuts were ordered to only two places for a total of one minute.

[1] In Finland, the board's decision attracted great attention, and Donner himself took advantage of the uproar by writing the book Tapaus Naisenkuvia ("The Case of Portraits of Women").

[4] Pertti (Jörn Donner) is a pornography-oriented filmmaker who has returned to Finland from America and settled in with his friends from his student days, the married couple Jussi (Aarre Elo) and Liisa (Kirsti Wallasvaara).

At a crayfish party organized by them, he meets biology teacher Saara Suominen (Ritva Vepsä), who is about to divorce her husband.

In the end, Pertti catches two agreeable young people, Sven (Henrik Gräno) and Ulla (Marianne Holmström), who have appeared in the "Summer Love" material he has seen, but who would also like to make a political film.

Despite their differences, Pertti and cinematographer Peter von Spaak (Jaakko Talaskivi), who supports a "modern" vision of cinema, try to capture Ulla and Sven's spontaneous love on film.

Ulla says that she had an argument with Sven, and Pertti decides to continue filming as the other side of the couple making love.

"[1] Eeva Järvenpää from Helsingin Sanomat says in her review that "the positive aspect of the film is its open undisguised self-irony", continuing that "in some places Portraits of Women offers really enjoyable visual humor.

But if Donner, instead of obviously focusing on planning how to succeed in defeating the censors and beating drastically for money, would have thought a little more about his film as a whole, Portraits of Women could have been much funnier.

"[1] Olli Tuomola from Turun Sanomat admits that although "after the overheated drumming and still not allowed to expect anything from Portraits of Women", he states in his assessment that "maybe that's why it somehow leaves a funny, liberated impression.

"[1] In the 1994 Video-opas film reference book edited by Bello Romano, Esko Rautakorpi mentions in his assessment that "Portraits of Women has a lot of talking and naked people, but still contains a very mediocre story."