Josée is a confident, liberated modern woman with a career as a film editor and an ‘open’ marriage to kinetic sculptor Gilbert. After an exhibition opening she goes home with the gallery owner, Stan, where a disturbing Hans Bellmer nude takes pride of place, and a coco de mer sits provocatively on the coffee table.
He’s showing her some photos when, oops, up pops an image of a naked woman, bound in chains. Josée is both intrigued and repelled by what Stan tells her of his predilections, and of his sessions photographing women in S&M poses. Will she decide to be the next?
In the course of the film Josée makes discoveries about her sexuality she struggles to come to terms with. Is Stan right that there is a deep strain of perversity in us all? And… what’s love got to do with it? We’re delighted to welcome critic Virginie Sélavy to unpick this film’s tangled tale of love, voyeurism and domination/submission.
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