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Immoral Tales

Four Erotic tales that take us back through the centuries.

1974 · 2h 5m · NOT RATED Drama, Romance
Directed by Walerian Borowczyk

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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.

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Borowczyk's cruel attempts at social commentary are mollified significantly by his probing fascination with the female body.

Simon Abrams, Village Voice

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