Immoral Tales (1974) ( Contes Immoraux )

Immoral Tales (1974) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Contes Immoraux
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
103 min + 125 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
Trailer(s)
Booklet
Remastered
Blu-Ray & DVD Combo

Movie filmed in 1974 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Walerian Borowczyk

Written By:
André Pieyre de Mandiargues

Actors:
Lise Danvers ..... Julie
Fabrice Luchini ..... André
Charlotte Alexandra ..... Thérèse
Paloma Picasso ..... Elisabeth Bathory
Pascale Christophe ..... Istvan
Florence Bellamy ..... Lucrezia Borgia
Jacopo Berinizi ..... Pope Alexander VI
Lorenzo Berinizi ..... Caesar Borgia
Philippe Desboeuf ..... Friar Hyeronimus Savonarola
Nicole Karen
Tomas Hnevsa
Mathieu Rivollier
Robert Capia
Gerard Tcherka
Kjell Gustavsson

Synopsis:

Although it has much in common with Walerian Borowczyk's earlier work, Immoral Tales marks the point where his reputation as an arty pornographer began, and was sexually explicit enough to have caused problems with the censors on its original UK release. It tells four stories revolving around particular taboos (virginity, female masturbation, bloodlust, incest), each delving further back in time, as if to suggest that the same issues recur constantly throughout human history and in all walks of life, whether it's Lucrezia Borgia (Florence Bellamy) or Erzsébet Báthory (Paloma Picasso in her only screen role) or the anonymous teenagers of the earlier episodes. This high-definition restoration by Argos Films is being released on Blu-ray with English subtitles for the first time. The film is presented in two versions: the familiar four-part edition, and the original five-part conception, including the short film The True Story of the Beast of Gévaudan that was later expanded into Borowczyk s later feature The Beast. The disc also includes both cuts of A Private Collection (1973), the short film that scandalised film festival audiences with its witty and often graphic study of vintage erotica.

Four erotic tales from in various historical eras. The first, 'The Tide', is set in the present day, and concerns a student and his young female cousin stranded on the beach by the tide, secluded from prying eyes. 'Therese Philosophe' is set in the nineteenth century, and concerns a girl being locked in her bedroom, where she contemplates the erotic potential of the objects contained within it. 'Erzsebet Bathory' is a portrait of the sixteenth-century countess who allegedly bathed in the blood of virgins, while 'Lucrezia Borgia' concerns an incestuous fifteenth-century orgy involving Lucrezia, her brother, and her father the Pope.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 15 March, 2015.