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Irish
07-20-2015, 02:55 PM
http://i.imgur.com/8c3jCY0.jpg

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2570858/

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_duke_of_burgundy/

dreamdead
07-20-2015, 03:14 PM
Irish, moved this to 2015 since it had a U.S. release in 2015, though it did the festival circuit before that.

Regardless, this remains my most awaited film for this year. The DVD and inevitable streaming release cannot get here quick enough.

Irish
07-20-2015, 03:20 PM
Irish, moved this to 2015 since it had a U.S. release in 2015, though it did the festival circuit before that.

Curious about that. I was under the impression we went by IMDb release dates, regardless of US release? Several films I've added recently (Allejuia, Welcome to New York) have similar confused dates. They debuted in Europe last year & take a looooooong time to show up in the U.S.

Either way is fine w/me. Only seeking clarification.

Edit: & how to treat Rebels of a Neon God? It was released in Taiwan in 1992 but wasn't available in the US until 2015! :D

dreamdead
10-18-2015, 10:24 PM
This is good. At times Strickland lays on the ornate cyclical aspects of the narrative when he'd be better served, as he later does, coaxing subtle humanity out of repressed desires for normalcy rather than the constant fetishization of desire. Both leads are solid, though Knudsen has so much more of a haunted expression and yearning throughout.

I will allow that, as Spinal's initial complaint, it is seldom erotic. There are a few of the early scenes that are anchored in eroticism, namely the delayed foot-rubbing and slow removal of clothes, before Strickland turns to continually undercutting that expectation. Yet those sequences that capture the everyday nature of Knudsen and D'Anna's sleep, away from the scripts of fetishism, are the true marvels of the film, holding the longing and moving away from a destructive fetishism that I worried the film would become.

This is a film like Ex Machina--it's lovely to look at and think about, but there might be just a bit more narrative that I wish from it.

Grouchy
02-01-2016, 04:33 PM
No more discussion about this little gem? I think it's as good a film about S&M as I've ever seen and I'm sorry I missed out on it in the big screen at Mar del Plata last year. It's just as stylish as Berberian Sound Studio but the storyline is more concrete and coherent. The Norwegian actress who plays the domme has a fascinating face and in the more intense parts of this she's able to communicate a lot of mixed feelings and fears - I think most acting awards unfairly ignored her work here. Or maybe it's just a niche type of picture. But if you're into erotic cinema that actually has something to say about human relationships you are going to love this.

EDIT: I'd be curious to know what number8 thinks of it.