Duke of Burgundy - SPOILER ALERT

[millicent]

Thanks for the link to the interview.
Some of the stuff he says is really weird though, no?

'With your average masochist, if the dominant is just slightly off-script or off-key: [snaps fingers] screwed up, gone wrong. Let’s try again.'

Umm.


I don't know - the film wasn't what I wanted it to be, but I'm still pleased I watched it.
I'm also quite curious about the Berberian Sounds Studio.

[aliceb]

Thanks for the link to the interview.
Some of the stuff he says is really weird though, no?

'With your average masochist, if the dominant is just slightly off-script or off-key: [snaps fingers] screwed up, gone wrong. Let’s try again.'

Umm.


I don't know - the film wasn't what I wanted it to be, but I'm still pleased I watched it.
I'm also quite curious about the Berberian Sounds Studio.

after seeing duke of burgundy at the london film fest i was also curious and managed to find a copy in wood green library

i much preferred it to duke of burgundy

[millicent]

^^^ It's on Netflix too. 

[pure evil]

Thanks for the link to the interview.
Some of the stuff he says is really weird though, no?

'With your average masochist, if the dominant is just slightly off-script or off-key: [snaps fingers] screwed up, gone wrong. Let’s try again.'

Umm.

Well yeah. I thought maybe he could be referring to how specific people can be in their tastes: for example in the case of verbal humiliation? *grasps at straws*

The weirder part for me was the bit where he talks about penetration being removed as a possibility because the film is set in a world of women. 

[MzB]

The weirder part for me was the bit where he talks about penetration being removed as a possibility because the film is set in a world of women. 

Me too. Though to be fair, it was the interviewer (a man, I assume) who put it like that.

[aliceb]

^^^ It's on Netflix too. 

but on the dvd's u got some interesting extra's including a 10 minute film about box hill make in the 70's! 

all will (kind of) be revealed when u watch the film.

[pure evil]

The weirder part for me was the bit where he talks about penetration being removed as a possibility because the film is set in a world of women. 

Me too. Though to be fair, it was the interviewer (a man, I assume) who put it like that.

Some of the more terrifying objects I've ever seen have been in dyke bedside cabinets 

*edit* oops missed that it was the interviewer.

[MzB]

Strickland says this in the interview:

"And when Cynthia really punishes Evelyn instead of pretend-punishes Evelyn, it’s horrible in a non-sexual way."

I actually found this part of the film quite human and funny. And necessary too.

[millicent]

^^^ It's on Netflix too. 

but on the dvd's u got some interesting extra's including a 10 minute film about box hill make in the 70's! 

all will (kind of) be revealed when u watch the film.

Will check Brighton library. 

The weirder part for me was the bit where he talks about penetration being removed as a possibility because the film is set in a world of women. 

Me too. Though to be fair, it was the interviewer (a man, I assume) who put it like that.

Some of the more terrifying objects I've ever seen have been in dyke bedside cabinets 

*edit* oops missed that it was the interviewer.

To be fair the assumption that the director thinks so too is probably not so far fetched - the sex in it was all back-rubs and cunnilingus.

Yet still better than 'Blue is the warmest colour'.

[pure evil]

Strickland says this in the interview:

"And when Cynthia really punishes Evelyn instead of pretend-punishes Evelyn, it’s horrible in a non-sexual way."

I actually found this part of the film quite human and funny. And necessary too.

Agree, the part I found less ok was in the lecture hall where Evelyn asks her odd question but it seemed as if Cynthia was keen on putting her down.

[MzB]

Actually I've just remembered. Someone I was involved with, years ago now, wanted to shift our relationship to a BDSM dynamic, which I had never done. With me as the Top/Domme. At the time, it was impossible for me to contemplate. Because I just couldn't get my head around how I could take up that role, as it seemed to me, under their 'control' or primarily at their behest. I couldn't be ordered to order them around!

But then, this type of conundrum is often there, for the Domme, in some form, I now see. And I found the exploration of that in the film really interesting.

[mint]

Sorry to go off on a tangent but how much moth/butterfly content is there in the film?

[millicent]

Sorry to go off on a tangent but how much moth/butterfly content is there in the film?

There is quite a bit of footage of dead moths/ butterflies in frames.
And I think there is one bit of fluttering moths. Unless I dreamt that.

[MzB]

There is quite a lot of moth footage. Close ups of individual moths  and susurrating clouds of moths. And many dead moths with pins in frames. 

[mint]

Thanks.