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| Queen of the Night | 
 enlarge | Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Actors: Marina Pierro, Mathieu Carriere, Josy Bernard, Isabelle Tinard, Jacques Couderc
Category: DVD
Buy New: $34.99
Buy New/Used from $34.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  (1 reviews)
Sales Rank: 160848
Format: Pal
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Original Language)
Media: DVD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5060010592518
ASIN: B0001FYRJE
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Another slow, beautiful erotic fantasy for grown up adults June 22, 2005
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
And if you are looking for softcore porn here, you'd probably do better to look elsewhere. It takes nearly three quarters of the film for the leads to make it to the bedroom - and even then it isn't really explicit. What makes this film worthwhile is the mood, which is saturated with psychological eroticism. A great deal of time and energy is spent on the seduction and on the forestalling of the inevitable act - which only heightens the sexual tension. In this sense the film reminds me more of real-world sex, even though the dialogue is deliberately literary - right down to a narration in the third peron.
The really good news here is that Borowczyk was able to reassert himself as an artist after hitting his exploitation nadir with the dismal 'Emanuelle 5' - which had to be a depressing experience for him. Here's hoping that he returns to the cinema soon.
Cult Epics' disc is only BARELY letterboxed - looking about like the UK release. The extras are sparse, and it's no match, really, for their recent three disc SE of 'The Beast.' But the film itself is worth having if you have an idea of what you are getting with this director.
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