An erotic collection of short stories, an anthology comprised of tantalizing tales about sexual desire and its diverse manifestations.An erotic collection of short stories, an anthology comprised of tantalizing tales about sexual desire and its diverse manifestations.An erotic collection of short stories, an anthology comprised of tantalizing tales about sexual desire and its diverse manifestations.
Sirpa Lane
- Romilda (segment "La bête")
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Walerian Borowczyk
- André Pieyre de Mandiargues(segment La marée)
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaThe original version screened in 1974 was made up of five, not four episodes. Borowczyk removed one episode, 'The True Story of the Beast of Gevaudan', and expanded it to feature length as The Beast (1975). In 2010, a print of the original short film of 'The True Story of the Beast of Gevaudan' was discovered in a French archive. The uncut version was shown at New Horizons Film Festival in Poland on 24th of July 2013, and subsequeny included on the 2014 Arrow Blu-ray release.
- Crazy creditsThe film opens with this quote:
"L'amour, tout agréable qu'il est, plaìt encore plus par le maniéres dont il se montre que par lui-méme." La Rochefoucauld (Maximes)
- Alternate versionsAs indicated in the trivia section, the original version screened in 1974 was made up of five, not four episodes, running at 2h 5m. Borowczyk removed one episode, 'The True Story of the Beast of Gevaudan / La Bête', and expanded it to feature length as La bête (1975). In 2010, a print of the original short film of 'La Bête' was discovered in a French archive. The uncut version was shown at New Horizons Film Festival in Poland on 24th of July 2013, and subsequently included on the 2014 Arrow Blu-ray release.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Beast (1975)
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A sex movie for the intelligentsia
Art or pornography? Well, if it's pornography certainly no pornographer in cinema as come as close to art as Borowczyk does here. The five "Immoral Tales" that make up this movie deal exclusively with sex in its various forms with a great emphasis on female nudity. Borowczyk deals with an almost fetishistic relish on the woman's body while almost totally ignoring the man's. With the exception of the first story, 'The Tide', the others are all taken from history or the past. We get St. Therese, she who was raped rather than give up her virginity; Elisabeth Bathory, she who liked to bathe, so they say, in the blood of virgins and Lucrezia Borgia, who apparently liked it whatever way she could get it. We also get a mini version of what became "The Beast" whose engorged phallus is one of the very few 'male' organs we see.
Visually the film's palette changes to suit the story at hand and this is very much a sex movie for the intelligentsia, which isn't to say that the 'dirty mac' brigade won't have a field day as well. Of course, since "Immoral Tales" first appeared movies have become a lot more sexually explicit and yet I happy to say this is a movie that can still provoke outrage today...of one kind or another.
Visually the film's palette changes to suit the story at hand and this is very much a sex movie for the intelligentsia, which isn't to say that the 'dirty mac' brigade won't have a field day as well. Of course, since "Immoral Tales" first appeared movies have become a lot more sexually explicit and yet I happy to say this is a movie that can still provoke outrage today...of one kind or another.
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- Runtime1 hour 43 minutes
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- 1.66 : 1
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