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Feminist Maria (Dagmar Lassander) makes the mistake to visit her macho
boss Doctor Sayer (Philippe Leroy) one weekend to pick up some documents,
as she soon enough finds herself trapped in his mansion and a subject to
his mercy ... and he has decided to torture her, put her in bondage, strip
her and degrade her, and he promises to finally rape and kill her, as he
has done with so many other girls before - and to prove his point, Sayer
shows Maria a collection of photographs of his past victims. And for the
most time everything goes as planned for Sayer, as he has scared Maria
witless and made her his slave.
Then though, he goes one step too far and almost kills Maria ... and
all of a sudden, with the girl dieing, his facade crumbles, and he does
everything to save her, and once she's out of harm's reach does everything
to comfort her ... and all of a sudden, the two fall in love with each
other and even start a healthy relationship - and Sayer admits in the
process that he has never killed anybody, and his pictures of dead women
were just prostitutes covered in fake blood.
Everything seems nice and beautiful now until ... Sayer dies in Maria's
arms, as she has handed him an overdose of his heart medication. Turns out
that Maria has planned the whole thing right from the beginning, she has
even paid a prostitute (Lorenza Guerrieri) to find out everything about
Sayer, and to cancel a meeting with him on the day he ultimately took
Maria captive - and it looks like Maria wants to continue this game with
more sadists in the future.
Not at all uninteresting film on BDSM relationships that unfortunately
falls into two halves: The first half is fascinating, being at once deeply
rooted in BDSM-philosophy and being extremely stylish. It is pretty much a
combination of pseudo-futuristic 60's style sets and well-composed images
on one side and torture, degradation and tension on the other, things that
work surprisingly well together in this film. In the second half however,
when Sayer and Maria become a conventional couple, the film pretty much
runs out of steam, the tension is totally gone and the little sexual games
the two lovers play are pretty much run-of-the-mill. Plus, the images
revert from extremely stylish tol rather ordinary. The twist ending though
saves the film, at least to a point.
Basically, the film is totally watchable (especially if you are into
BDSM-stories) but falls several feet short of the masterpiece it could
have been.
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