Venus in Furs
Aroview: Leopold Sacher-Masoch’s ‘infamous’ novel made over as a 70s soft-core excursion that is typically more faithful to (male) movie-goer fantasies than the original text or psychological realism. Instead the pleasures are mostly unintentional – laughably earnest narration, ultra-discreet camera angles, a slushy exotic score, and some unwieldy Italian moustaches…
Exploring themes of sexual ownership and control, Ryan O’Neal look-a-like Renate Kasche tests his relationship by encouraging his lover (Antonelli) to be mercilessly cruel and “unleash her inner tigress”. This works fine when it comes to physical ‘abuse’, but gets more problematic for him when it involves her romps with other men...
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