Climax (1972)

1972
January 13, 2022

Monika feels unused and misunderstood. The young wife of the busy and successful civil engineer Kai is often alone because he is hunted and plagued by appointments. Increasingly sexually frustrated, Monika tries masturbating. On the advice of a friend, Monika looks for male acquaintances and becomes a nymphomaniac. What she did not find with Kai – tenderness, refuge and understanding – Monika finally finds with one of her lovers.

Save and Protect (1989)

1989
November 13, 2021

Inspired by Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Sokurov’s Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma’s decline and fall: affairs with the aristocratic Rodolphe and the student Leon, the humiliation that follows her husband’s botching of the operation on the stable boy’s clubfoot. The universality of the theme of eternal struggle between the soul and the flesh is conveyed through the absence of specific reference to time or place: although the film seems to begin […]

The Sweet Pussycats (1969)

1969

A colonel (Sieghardt Rupp) and an earl (Ernst Stankovski) who live in opposite ends of the same castle bet each other who will be the first to bed their respective new ‘virgin’ maid. The winner will get ownership of the castle. In order to attain his goal, the colonel ignores his lusty fiancee (Edwige Fenech) but she soon finds a lieutenant (Ivan Nesbitt) to turn her attention to. Eventually, a whole stable of local prostitutes […]

Hellhole Women (1981)

1981

In Spain, a newlywed couple parks their car in a deserted land to make love and they trespass a private property. They are taken to a women’s prison and the husband is released while his wife is arrested and forced to do hard labor. Soon she learns that the women in the prison are submitted to sexual abuse to satisfy the sadistic lesbian warden and the impotent governor and his bisexual wife. Meanwhile, her husband […]