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Immoral Tales

Original title: Contes immoraux
  • 19731973
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 43m
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5.6/10
4.6K
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Contes immoraux (1973)
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An erotic collection of short stories, an anthology comprised of tantalizing tales about sexual desire and its diverse manifestations.An erotic collection of short stories, an anthology comprised of tantalizing tales about sexual desire and its diverse manifestations.An erotic collection of short stories, an anthology comprised of tantalizing tales about sexual desire and its diverse manifestations.

IMDb RATING
5.6/10
4.6K
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  • Director
    • Walerian Borowczyk
  • Writers
    • Walerian Borowczyk
    • André Pieyre de Mandiargues(story)
  • Stars
    • Lise Danvers
    • Fabrice Luchini
    • Charlotte Alexandra
Top credits
  • Director
    • Walerian Borowczyk
  • Writers
    • Walerian Borowczyk
    • André Pieyre de Mandiargues(story)
  • Stars
    • Lise Danvers
    • Fabrice Luchini
    • Charlotte Alexandra
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    • 29User reviews
    • 68Critic reviews
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    Lise Danvers
    • Julie - Story 1as Julie - Story 1
    Fabrice Luchini
    Fabrice Luchini
    • André - Story 1as André - Story 1
    Charlotte Alexandra
    • Thérèse - Story 2as Thérèse - Story 2
    Lisbeth Hummel
    Lisbeth Hummel
    • Lucy Broadhurst - Story 3as Lucy Broadhurst - Story 3
    Paloma Picasso
    • Elisabeth Bathory - Story 4as Elisabeth Bathory - Story 4
    Pascale Christophe
    • Istvan - Story 4as Istvan - Story 4
    Florence Bellamy
    • Lucrezia Borgia - Story 5as Lucrezia Borgia - Story 5
    Lorenzo Berinizi
    • Caesar Borgia - Story 5as Caesar Borgia - Story 5
    Jacopo Berinizi
    • Pope Alexander VI - Story 5as Pope Alexander VI - Story 5
    Philippe Desboeuf
    • Hyeronimus Savonarola - Story 5as Hyeronimus Savonarola - Story 5
    Tomas Hnevsa
      Mathieu Rivolier
      Mathieu Rivolier
      Robert Capia
      Gerard Tcherka
      Kjell Gustavsson
      Nicole Karen
      Florence Dauman
      • Hungarian girl - Story 4as Hungarian girl - Story 4
      • (uncredited)
      Marie Forså
      Marie Forså
      • Silver Blonde in Close-Up girl - Story 3as Silver Blonde in Close-Up girl - Story 3
      • (uncredited)
      • Director
        • Walerian Borowczyk
      • Writers
        • Walerian Borowczyk
        • André Pieyre de Mandiargues(story) (segment La marée)
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      Storyline

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      Four erotic tales from in various historical eras. The first, 'The Tide', is set in the present day, and concerns a student and his young female cousin stranded on the beach by the tide, secluded from prying eyes. 'Therese Philosophe' is set in the nineteenth century, and concerns a girl being locked in her bedroom, where she contemplates the erotic potential of the objects contained within it. 'Erzsebet Bathory' is a portrait of the sixteenth-century countess who allegedly bathed in the blood of virgins, while 'Lucrezia Borgia' concerns an incestuous fifteenth-century orgy involving Lucrezia, her brother, and her father the Pope. —Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
      • female masturbation
      • female underarm hair
      • bare breasts
      • erotica
      • voyeur
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        • Four Erotic Tales That Take Us Back Through The Centuries
      • Genres
        • Drama
        • Romance
      • Certificate
        • Not Rated
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      • Trivia
        The original version screened in 1974 was made up of five, not four episodes. Borowczyk removed one episode, 'The True Story of the Beast of Gevaudan', and expanded it to feature length as La bête (1975). In 2010, a print of the original short film of 'The True Story of the Beast of Gevaudan' was discovered in a French archive. The uncut version was shown at New Horizons Film Festival in Poland on 24th of July 2013, and subsequeny included on the 2014 Arrow Blu-ray release.
      • Quotes

        Julie: Since last summer, I have met five boys.

        André: What do you mean you "met" them?

        Julie: We'd meet.

        André: Where?

        Julie: At parties. We kissed.

        André: And that's all?

        Julie: Yes.

        André: On the lips?

        Julie: No, Mum was always nearby.

        André: Untouched. Thanks to my aunt. But today, she is far away...

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      7/10
      A sex movie for the intelligentsia
      Art or pornography? Well, if it's pornography certainly no pornographer in cinema as come as close to art as Borowczyk does here. The five "Immoral Tales" that make up this movie deal exclusively with sex in its various forms with a great emphasis on female nudity. Borowczyk deals with an almost fetishistic relish on the woman's body while almost totally ignoring the man's. With the exception of the first story, 'The Tide', the others are all taken from history or the past. We get St. Therese, she who was raped rather than give up her virginity; Elisabeth Bathory, she who liked to bathe, so they say, in the blood of virgins and Lucrezia Borgia, who apparently liked it whatever way she could get it. We also get a mini version of what became "The Beast" whose engorged phallus is one of the very few 'male' organs we see.

      Visually the film's palette changes to suit the story at hand and this is very much a sex movie for the intelligentsia, which isn't to say that the 'dirty mac' brigade won't have a field day as well. Of course, since "Immoral Tales" first appeared movies have become a lot more sexually explicit and yet I happy to say this is a movie that can still provoke outrage today...of one kind or another.
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      • Aug 10, 2017

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      • Release date
        • August 28, 1974 (France)
      • Country of origin
        • France
      • Languages
        • French
        • Italian
        • Hungarian
      • Also known as
        • The Tide
      • Production companies
        • Argos Films
        • Syn-Frank Enterprises
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      Technical specs

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      • Runtime
        1 hour 43 minutes
      • Sound mix
        • Mono
      • Aspect ratio
        • 1.66 : 1

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