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Contes Immoraux

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

Critics Reviews

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Carson Lund Slant Magazine 11/03/2021
Accuse Walerian Borowczyk of perpetrating a pervy male gaze, but never accuse him of repressing anything. Go to Full Review
Philip Strick Sight & Sound 03/19/2020
The film ends on the infant's cheerful face... it's the perfect conclusion. Go to Full Review
Simon Abrams Village Voice 12/09/2014
Borowczyk's cruel attempts at social commentary are mollified significantly by his probing fascination with the female body. Go to Full Review
Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com 10/20/2020
3/5
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. Go to Full Review
Jesús Fernández Santos El Pais (Spain) 07/29/2019
In Paloma Picasso, sex reaches the exquisite category of a rigorously calculated pleasure, a studied rehabilitation of love. [Full Review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Fernando F. Croce CinePassion 02/13/2010
Quel sacrilege! Go to Full Review
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Audience Reviews

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Ian E 06/15/2024 The best thing about this film was the Renaissance music pieces in the soundtrack, as well the ancient Hungarian, and Spanish music used. See more Petros T 10/06/2023 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. See more 03/16/2020 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. See more Bill P 02/06/2019 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" See more 10/16/2016 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. See more 04/02/2012 boring softporn flick. 1,5/5 See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Walerian Borowczyk directed this collection of four tales that examine morals and sex in different eras.
Director
Walerian Borowczyk
Producer
Anatole Dauman
Screenwriter
Walerian Borowczyk
Genre
Drama
Original Language
French (France)
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 10, 2017
Runtime
1h 45m