Saturday, October 6, 2012

The Image aka The Punishment of Anne (Radley Metzger, 1976)

This one caught me a bit by surprise which is always good. I came across it on some discussion boards and downloaded it just to see it out of curiously. Always interested into “cult” movies that nobody actually has seen.

So it starts predictable as typical French erotic/SM kinky drama with a bit more of women frontal nudity as usual. Which is great and I’m all for that! Especially when made in this stylish way that frogies are so good at. But then, halfway through the movie, came surprise in a form of blow job shot in very hard core porn style!? 

It’s basically more daring version of Story of O, one with the guts. It’s about love through submission and it’s similarly stylized but it goes further with explicit shots. Which are not exploitive at all and movie is certainly far from hard core pornography. Narration of story basically follows these little erotic episodes, but there’s still enough of characters development and various mind fucks (who in fact is slave and who’s a master?) to make it very intriguing. And of course very sexy – lead actress Rebecca Brooke is so fucking hot!

Good stuff, it leaves you uncomfortable and it stays in the back of your mind for some time. Probably too dark and depressing for general public but I liked it a lot.

8/10

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