Immoral stories
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Immoral stories |
| Original title | Contes immoraux |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French , Hungarian , Italian |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Walerian Borowczyk |
| script | Walerian Borowczyk |
| production | Anatole Dauman |
| music | Maurice Leroux |
| camera |
Bernard Daillencourt Guy Durban Michel Zolat Noël Véry |
| cut | Walerian Borowczyk |
| occupation | |
Limited edition:
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Immoral Stories (French original title: Contes immoraux ) is a French episode film by the Polish director Walerian Borowczyk , consisting of four erotic stories . It was produced by Argos Films , premiered in 1973 and had its cinema premiere on August 28, 1974.
Title and cut versions
The choice of the title is an allusion to the cycle of "six moral stories" (Six contes moraux) created between 1962 and 1972 by the French filmmaker Éric Rohmer . Borowczyk originally intended to compose his film from five episodes and a supporting film and showed this version for the first time and once at its world premiere in 1973 in the competition for the Belgian Prix L'Âge d'Or , with which the film was also awarded the following year. But that same year he released the fourteen-minute supporting film Une collection particulière as a separate film and he cut out the scenes from the original third story La véritable historie de la bête du Gévaudan to use them as dream sequences for his 1975 film The Beast ( La Bête ) use. Thus, the immoral stories at their French cinema premiere in 1974 only included four episodes. Only after a copy of the original cut version of the La Bête episode, believed to have been lost , was rediscovered in 2010 , was it possible to restore the film version originally devised by the director.
Synopsis
The immoral stories begin with a quote from the Maxime from La Rochefoucauld : L'amour est tout agréable qu'il, plaît encore plus par les manières dont il se montre que par lui-même.
Theatrical version
First story: "La marée"
- Prologue: "Julie, ma cousine, avait seize ans, j'en avais vingt, et cette petite différence d'âge la rendait docile à mes commandements."
- Content: The twenty year old student André seduces his sixteen year old cousin Julie to fellatio on a beach . When the tide comes in at the same time, he explains to her the reciprocity of the tides .
Second story: "Thérèse philosophe"
- Prologue: June 10, 1890. The habitants de notre demantent la béatification de Thérèse H., la pieuse jeune fille violée par un vagabond. La Gazette du Dimanche.
- Synopsis: As a punishment, the young girl Thérèse is locked up by her aunt in a room in their country house. There Thérèse combines her devotion to Christ with her urge for sexuality.
Third story: "Erzébet Báthory"
- Prologue: En 1610. La comtesse Erzébet Báthory, accompagnée de son page, visite les villages et hameaux de son comtat de Nyitra en Hongrie. La comtesse Báthory organize une orgie où sacrifiées des jeunes filles.
- Content: The Hungarian Countess Erzsébet Báthory kidnaps the virgins of her county to her castle. After she has celebrated orgiastic parties with them, she bathes in their blood until she is betrayed by her faithful servant, behind whose identity her lover is actually hidden.
Fourth story: "Lucrezia Borgia"
- Prologue: En 1498. Lucrezia Borgia, accompagnée de son mari Giovanni Sforza, rend visite à son père, le pape Alexandre VI et à son frère, le cardinal Cesare Borgia. Le dominicain Hyeronimo Savonarola dénonce la vie dissolue du milieu ecclésiastique.
- Content: Lucrezia Borgia visits with her husband, Giovanni Sforza , their father, the Pope Alexander VI. , and her brother, Cardinal Cesare Borgia . After her husband is eliminated from her family, Lucrezia indulges in her incestuous passion for father and brother. In front of the papal palace, the Dominican Savonarola preaches against the moral decline of the church, while he is burned at the same time.
limited edition
Supporting film: "Une collection particulière"
- Content: André Pieyre de Mandiargues as the narrator presents bizarre erotica of the Empire and the Belle Époque .
Third story: "La Bête (La véritable historie de la bête du Gévaudan)"
- Prologue: "En 1765. Un monstre, la bete de Gévaudan, sème la terreur en France, dans le Massif Central."
- Synopsis: A girl is raped by the beast of Gévaudan , but her awakening sexual insatiability becomes the beast's undoing.
various
- The film was indexed in Germany until January 2010 , but was shown on TV in 1999, for example.
- The first story ( La marée ) comes from the Mascaret collection of works by the writer André Pieyre de Mandiargues .
- The portrayal of Erzébet Báthory is the only work by Paloma Picasso .
- Fabrice Luchini had starred in Le genou de Claire in 1970 , the penultimate of Rohmer's “moral stories”.
- Borowczyk had first offered the role of Julie to Isabelle Adjani , who was still unknown at the time , but she turned it down for fear of only being offered roles in sex films afterwards.
- The title Thérèse Philosophe refers to a pornographic book of the same name (1748) that was popular in the late 18th century.
- The pavilion shown in La Bête is at the entrance of the Parc de Bagatelle in the Bois de Boulogne and was built in 1775 as the result of a bet between Marie Antoinette and the Comte d'Artois .
- The harpsichord piece to be heard in La Bête is the Sonata in A major (K. 209) by Domenico Scarlatti , recorded by Huguette Dreyfus , who is said not to have been pleased about the use of its recording for this film.
- Pope Alexander VI and his son Cesare Borgia are portrayed by the Italian documentary filmmaker Mario Ruspoli (* 1925, † 1986), an avowed anti-Catholic, and his son Fabrizio Ruspoli, who used the pseudonyms 'Jacopo Berinizi' and 'Lorenzo Berinizi'.
- Lucrezia actress Florence Bellamy had previously turned down the roles in La Béte and des Istvan in Erzébet Bathory .
Evaluations on DVD and Blu-ray Disc
From Immoral Tales are entitled Immoral Tales two English publications on DVD Labels Anchor Bay Entertainment (2000) and Nouveaux Pictures (2003). In 2005 ARTE France Vidéo released a French DVD evaluation.
In 2011, the label Bildstören published Immoral Stories in Germany in two versions, both on DVD and on Blu-ray Disc. In addition to the cinema version, the special edition also contains the supporting film Une collection particulière . The limited edition was further supplemented by the episode La véritable historie de la bête du Gévaudan as the third story, which was reconstructed from the scenes used for The Beast ( La Bête ). This edition thus includes the six stories originally planned by Walerian Borowczyk, which were also shown at the premiere in 1973. In addition, the limited edition contains a bonus DVD / BD with background and documentation material on the film, as well as a booklet with excerpts from Daniel Bird's Obscure Pleasures . Both editions were not approved for young people by the voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (FSK 18).
Web link
- Immoral Tales in the Internet Movie Database (English)