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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: French ( Mono ), English ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Featurette, Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Uncut, SYNOPSIS: Four erotic tales from in various historical eras. The first, 'The Tide', is set in the present day, and concerns a student and his young female cousin stranded on the beach by the tide, secluded from prying eyes. 'Therese Philosophe' is set in the nineteenth century, and concerns a girl being locked in her bedroom, where she contemplates the erotic potential of the objects contained within it. 'Erzsebet Bathory' is a portrait of the sixteenth-century countess who allegedly bathed in the blood of virgins, while 'Lucrezia Borgia' concerns an incestuous fifteenth-century orgy involving Lucrezia, her brother, and her father the Pope. ...Immoral Tales ( Contes Immoraux )
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44 of 47 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Immoral Tales is one of Borowzcyk's masterpieces, though it does not reach the heights of La Bete or L'ile d'amour. Borowczuk's style is distinctive: subliminal, insinuative imagery, slow build-ups leading up to explosive finales in which sexuality and (often) violence run wild, excellent scores and respectable acting, an amazing use of colour. All this amounts to much more than softcore pornography. Borowzcyk's achievement far surpasses the level of Emmanuelle and by far outstrips the likes of Franco and Brass.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This artistically barren film doesn't really deserve any praise, but i'll award it two fat stars simply for the phenomenal nudity during the Countess Bathory segment. There are no less than THIRTY nubile chicks completely billy bollox during one sequence and I could only marvel at their collective hotness as I wallowed in freeze-frame and slo-mo bliss. I'm not kidding, there's enough 1970s wool in that scene alone to keep Alan Titchmarsh in cuddly jumpers for the next ten years.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The tale of the girl locked in a room with some suggestive old prints and a cucumber is the one that stayed in my my mind for 30 years before the time came for me to get it on DVD. The sound of that cucumber was the thing that resonated most: the suck and the squelch of it was delicious. Borowczyk has always been good with sound as well as his uniquely, often flat two dimensional, painterly visuals. But there was also the intense otherness of the girl's concentrated privacy as she worked it, unseen by us as we only get the view of her back torso. It's a visual poem. The cucumber story is in the naturalistic three dimensional style and concentrates on the textures of, usually solid, inanimate objects in the consistent closely observed Boro style found in all his films.
This film as a whole is not Borowczyk at his best but at least it's his second best.
This film as a whole is not Borowczyk at his best but at least it's his second best.
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