Markisinnan de Sade

Markisinnan de Sade

1992
TV Movie
1h 45m
The setting of Madame de Sade begins in France in 1772 and ends twelve years later, nine months after the French Revolution. Six Women, one of them Madame de Sade, discuss their views and feelings of the notorious sadist and sodomist Marquis de Sade. (ingmarbergman.se)
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Markisinnan de Sade

1992
TV Movie
1h 45m
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Rated 27 Oct 2020
65
71st
Mishima's exploration of the pursuit of sexual violence (inflicted and received) as an antidote to moral hypocrisy and a pathway to the infinite is certainly more than merely a historical curiosity, but at the same time it does seem a bit kitschy. The events depicted (rather statically by Mishima) are of inherent interest, however: for Mishima, it is a matter of the construction of the (Western) world we now inhabit; Bergman, though, adds a few Japanese touches as a nod to the source. An oddity.
Rated 09 Oct 2008
84
81st
This is a novelty: Bergman adapting a Mishima play. An all-female cast gives a look at the transformation of some of the women in de Sade's life during his imprisonment. The Noh-style staging and samisen music are nods to its Japanese roots, but the emotional intensity and moral complexity are pure Ingmar. The heightened dialogue and close-ups at times threaten to turn the whole thing into self-parody, but I was pretty engaged nonetheless.
Rated 28 Oct 2020
65
36th
Probably a film more about where Sade's attraction lies and what he opens up for people in general, than about what it means for women (though the film's interesting partly because masochist enjoyment is unavoidably in a fascinating entwinement with what we can define as female sexuality): where conformity sees law-breaching and degeneration, Sadism sees gift exchange and pursuit towards infinity both opened up by and in perpetual tension with social conventions and control in general.

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