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      Deadly Sanctuary

      1970 1h 35m Mystery & Thriller List
      Reviews 41% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings The sadistic Marquis de Sade revels as young Justine endures torture and torment at the hands of assorted psychopaths. Read More Read Less

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      Christopher Null Filmcritic.com Rated: 1.5/5 Oct 6, 2004 Full Review Read all reviews

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      delysid d i liked this movie, it was better than i expected Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/23/18 Full Review Audience Member Loosely based on the De Sade novel an unflinching film where we are drawn into a world of degradation committed on a young woman of virtue her love of God tested her trust in humanity tested. Though the book is better its not a bad adaptation the philosophy is left out and the harshness of the church is tamed down. I watched the uncut version an extra 30 minutes the 90 minute version here I imagine would not be very good. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Even the few good elements in this film by Jesús Franco end up being overlooked among its general mess and some truly awful acting. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member I would give this movie this rating just for Jack Palance's performance alone. It's so over the top and outwardly perverse. According to Jess Franco, Palance was drunk all the time and he thought that Franco was going make him do something vulgar at first! Romina Power is completely wooden through the whole thing. I know the story should be played over the top, but she is so flat and boring that it's a shame that Rosemary Dexter didn't get to play Justine as Franco had wanted. Intead, the American distributors wanted the children of their heroes (in this case Tyrone Power's daughter). Still, if not a little overlong, the movie is still entertaining. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Justine, ou: à quoi ressemble un film de Jess Franco réalisé en plus de 5 jours avec un budget normal... Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member As an adapation of the Marquis de Sade's novel, Justine is not that great. It only sort of follows the plots of de Sade's novel, and it makes the terrible faux pas of making the film more erotic than disturbing. De Sade is always as disturbing as it is erotic. The film features little sadism much less the other more atrocious Sadean pastimes. but Franco does create a lavish, 18th century drama about the dichotomy between vice and virtue, which at times seems to have more to do with Samuel Richardson's Pamela and Clarissa than with de Sade's Justine and Juliette--it's of course important to remember that Justine is, in part, a parody of Pamela. Filled with off-the-wall characters and filmed with beautiful cinematography and direction, Franco expertly deconstructs the boundaries between good and evil, vice and virtue, sin and piety, etc. If you want a more truly Sadean filmic experience, then watch Passolini's Salo, but if you want a lavishly filmed, surrealistic, historical, erotic adventure, then Franco has what you're looking for. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis The sadistic Marquis de Sade revels as young Justine endures torture and torment at the hands of assorted psychopaths.
      Director
      Jess Franco
      Genre
      Mystery & Thriller
      Original Language
      Italian
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Oct 11, 2017
      Runtime
      1h 35m
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