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It is hard to tell who is putting whom on in today's film.

A mild circus of SM and BD fantasies wrapped up in a bow. Or rope.

Roman Polanski returns with his patented slick porno-art.

La Vénus à la fourrure / Venus in Fur (2013)

I got this because of Matthieu Almaric who stars as the masochistic/gender bent M to Emmanuelle Seigner's top.

It is upsetting and funny at the same time. I think it is meant to turn the tables on sexual fantasies. But I suspect this is more about Polanski's fantasies than mine. But I am not of the heterosexual bent. God knows what those straights will get up to if you put them alone together in a dark room with some rope.

Actually a theater stage, season closed.

I liked this film a lot for many reasons but believability is not a part of it.

There is plenty of irony and a good dose of cross dressing in both the real and imaginary sense. An SandM textbook really that only works through the early pages.

The acting is superb. The photography exquisite. And if the attention to perverse (?) desires is expected to shock it mostly comes over as funny and twisted.

Which is enough. Very enjoyable.

It is generic I think. I could easily see the parts played by a couple of men. That would be very hot but this is hot enough.

Polanski has always played along these borders and he is very good at it. I think that it would be very easy to fall over into sensationalism or exhibitionism.

Whatever that means.

I liked it, will give it a 3 and would like to see him do the homo-version but he would be unable as he does do this work from his own heart and I suspect he is destined for straight fantasies alone.

I will give this a 4 out of Netflix 5 because I would not mind seeing it again at all. The interplay between the actors is formidable and they are really into it.

Labels: films, S&M