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Docteur Jekyll et les Femmes
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
Le cas estrange du Dr. Jekyll et de Miss Osbourne / Bloodbath of Doctor Jekyll / Dr. Jekyll and His Women / Dr. Jekyll and His Wives / The Blood of Dr. Jekyll / The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Lady Osbourne
France/West Germany 1981
produced by Ralph Baum, Robert Kuperberg, Jean-Pierre Labrande
directed by Walerian Borowczyk
starring Udo Kier, Marina Pierro, Patrick Magee, Gérard Zalcberg, Howard Vernon, Clément Harari, Jean Mylonas, Eugene Braun Munk, Louis Colla, Catherine Coste, Rita Maiden, Michèle Maze, Agnès Daems, Magali Noaro, Dominique Andersen, Isabelle Cagnat, Gisèle Préville
screenplay by Walerian Borowczyk, based on the novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, music by Bernard Parmegiani
Jekyll and Hyde
review by Mike Haberfelner
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It should be the happiest of days in Dr Jekyll's (Udo Kier) life, as
this day, at dinner, he's to announce his engagement to Fanny Osbourne
(Marina Pierro), and their families and quite a few of their upperclass
friends are already present - including Dr Lanyon (Howard Vernon), who
Jekyll has had endless debates with over the years regarding Jekyll's
experiments in transcendental medicine. The dinner is of course
overshadowed from square one, when the police general present (Patrick
Magee) can't stop talking about a brutal murder that has happened in the
vicinity. But the occasion really loses all of its glory when one of
Jekyll's guests who had to retreat early is found brutally raped and
murdered (just like in the case the General has alluded to time and again)
in Jekyll's guest room. Chaos ensues pretty much immediately, not at all
helped when the General shoots one of Jekyll's employees dead in a case of
sheer nervousness. Jekyll in the meantime slips away ... to turn into the
ruthless Mr Hyde (Gérard Zalcberg), as who he commits some murders, ties
up the General and has (consensuous) sex with the General daughter's
before his very eyes - but once he's chased off and cornered, he turns
into Jekyll once again and is free of all suspicion. Thing is, the next
time he turns into Hyde, Fanny spies on him - which of course puts her in
immediate danger ... but then again, she might not be quite the innocent
girl everyone has taken her for ... Much more than other
versions of the story, Waleriyn Borowczyk puts the emphasis of his movie
firmly on both the sensual and the socio-political aspects of the source
material, and even if he strays quite a bit from Stevenson's well-known
novella, Borowczyk's approach works quite well taken on its own terms, as
does the satirical spin and the director's elegant and self-consciously
voyeuristic mise-en-scène. And add to this a top-notch cast of cult
actors, and you've got pretty much a must-see movie!
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