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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Inspired by the soft-core erotic eurotrash films of Jess Franco and others, but with an injection of hard-core art house weirdness, director Peter Strickland's The Duke of Burgundy is a specialist item that won't appeal to those with conservative tastes. However, for adventurous souls willing to board Strickland's freaky funhouse ride, this will be pure bliss: a funny, melancholic and peculiarly haunting exploration of an S&M relationship between two women. Indeed, it's a pretty spot-on evocation of the see-sawing power shifts that can go on in any relationship, but it just so happens that this one is between dominant Cynthia (Sidse Babett Knudsen) and her submissive Evelyn (Chiara D'Anna), two elegant ladies with a taste for silky underthings and role play who live in a strange, time-out-of-joint world where everyone is female and shares a zoological interest in insects, especially butterflies and moths. The latter half's descent into David Lynchian surrealism verges on mannerism, but it's still a tremendously potent, bewitching work.

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Credits

Cast

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CynthiaSidse Babett Knudsen
EvelynChiara D'Anna
Dr FraxiniEugenia Caruso
Dr SchullerZita Kraszko
LornaMonica Swinn
Dr ViridanaEszter Tompa
The CarpenterFatma Mohamed

Crew

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DirectorPeter Strickland

Details

Theatrical distributor
Artificial Eye
Released on
2015-02-20
Languages
English
Guidance
Sex scenes
Available on
DVD and Blu-ray
Formats
Colour
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