Contes Immoraux

1974

1h 45m

Drama

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10 Reviews

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500+ Ratings

Walerian Borowczyk directed this collection of four tales that examine morals and sex in different eras.

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Carson Lund

Slant Magazine

Accuse Walerian Borowczyk of perpetrating a pervy male gaze, but never accuse him of repressing anything.

Nov 3, 2021

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Philip Strick

Sight & Sound

The film ends on the infant's cheerful face... it's the perfect conclusion.

Mar 19, 2020

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Simon Abrams

Village Voice

Borowczyk's cruel attempts at social commentary are mollified significantly by his probing fascination with the female body.

Dec 9, 2014

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Though it's not one of Walerian Borowczyk's best works, fans of the director should appreciate this early bid at blurring the lines between titillation and entertainment.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 20, 2020

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Jesús Fernández Santos

El Pais (Spain)

In Paloma Picasso, sex reaches the exquisite category of a rigorously calculated pleasure, a studied rehabilitation of love. [Full Review in Spanish]

Jul 29, 2019

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Roger Moore

Movie Nation

Quaint, ponderous, pretentious and perverse

Rated: 1.5/4

May 24, 2018

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Petros T

It's undeniably off the charts how male-gazey this is. At the same time, if you know you're in for a borderline pornographic sexploitation fantasy, the almost overbearing, gratuitous nudity and rather unusual scenarios might titillate you. And yet, although great shots, good ideas and zany humour are present, variety, storytelling and messaging are not; more laughs, surrealism and exaggeration would have made a difference, but as is it's merely a softcore curio with an uncomfortable perspective.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

10/06/23

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Audience Member

I like it. It is super gratuitous, and deals with heavy topics like rape, incest, and murder. But there is a reason for that, so I appreciate what the director is trying to do. Plus it is beautifully framed.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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bill p

If Eric Rohmer made porn this is what it would look like. A quaint, quiet piece of eroticism seen with a male eye in those innocent days before internet porn, when you could show the cucumber but not the act and before every bit of female body hair had to be shaven off. Why was it made? Who knows - I love the list of Genres that Rotten Tomatoes chooses to classify it with: "Art House & International, Drama, Horror, Special Interest, Romance"

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Despite being gorgeously shot, and directed with a careful eye for the human form, this down trodden, ugly expression of psychosexuality is twice as hard to think back on, as it is to watch. It feels like the result of perversion, not artistic yearning.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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Audience Member

boring softporn flick. 1,5/5

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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Audience Member

It's like Salo's twin sister.. The kind of movie that'll make people (even the Pope) say: Holy shit.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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Synopsis

Walerian Borowczyk directed this collection of four tales that examine morals and sex in different eras.

Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Screenwriter: Walerian Borowczyk
Genre: Drama
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 10, 2017
Runtime: 1h 45m