Every couple of weeks, Spectacle Theater screens a Midnite Movie which I know little to nothing about, and The Story Of O(1975) happens to be one of those movies. Maybe it's because I'm not schooled properly in XXX, maybe it's arthouse, who knows? What I do know is that whoever is doing the programming for the Midnite schedule knows their shit, so I wouldn't pass this up if I had Friday night free.
Spectacle say - "Beautiful fashion photographer "O" (Corrine Clery) is deposited by her lover at a bizarre château retreat in order that he may discharge a personal debt owed to his step brother. There, marked with a branding iron by her new ‘master’, she submits herself to all manners of bondage and sado-masochistic perversion, only to eventually to realize the infinite power of her feminity.
Reactions to Jaeckin's sumptuous adaptation of Pauline Reage’s controversial novel range from moral outrage (and masturbatory indulgence) to lengthy, academic study on it’s feminist (or misogynistic) implications. A milestone of cinematic (and BDSM) eroticism, the film was an art house sensation in 1975."
...and now for some random trivia courtesy of IMDB: Was originally to be directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky and produced by Alan Klien. (Klien had funded Jodorowsky's two previous pictures El topo (1970) and The Holy Mountain (1973)) However, Alejandro bailed on the film leaving Alan with the problem of finding a replacement, which he never did. After much trouble with trying to get it off the ground, Klien sold the rights. However, the ordeal spawned a 30 year feud with Jodorowsky and resulted in Klien withholding the rights to El Topo and The Holy Mountain, blocking them from being distributed. The feud was finally settled in 2005.
Friday, June 10th at Midnight @ Spectacle 124 S. 3rd St., (at Bedford Ave.)Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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