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Story Of O
on DVD (1975)
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Brief synopsis of Story Of O
A young woman learns the pleasure of totally subjugating her body to the man she loves. Based on Pauline Reage's best-selling erotic novel printed in 23 countries.
"Story Of 'O'" is based on the hugely successful S&M novel that has been read by millions of people worldwide. The author Pauline Reage tells the story of a beautiful young woman known only as 'O' who is taken by her boyfriend Rene to a chateau just outside Paris. There 'O' is trained in bondage and sexual perversion. 'O' is deeply in love with Rene and in order to prove her love she allows herself to be subjected to all kinds of degradation and abuse. Finally, Rene discharges a personal debt by transfering possession of 'O' to his stepbrother Sir Stephen.
In the film which produced in 1975, Just Jaeckin the director explores the cruel world in which 'O' finds herself. A world of sado-masochism and kinky and bizarre sexual practices.
The film was refused certification when it was originally submitted, has now been passed uncut by the British Board Of Film Classification.
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This tale of a woman who becomes a willing slave to the men she loves was banned in the UK for 25 years, though it's debatable these days as to what's more shocking — Corinne Cléry's sexual subservience or Udo Kier's flared Cerruti trousers. Dramatising the controversial sadomasochistic novel by Pauline Réage, Emmanuelle director Just Jaeckin takes a dreamy, soft-focus, shampoo commercial approach to the sexual content, though it remains eye-opening. The addition of then-fashionable feminism — by withstanding all the pain and humiliation her lovers dish out, O proves herself stronger than they are — barely excuses the exploitative tableaux. However, Jaeckin's often unintentionally funny erotic epic stands as a seventies landmark that blurred the soft- and hard-core imagery of its “anything goes” era.
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