Год производства: 1975 г. Страна: USA/France Жанр: Feature Classic Продолжительность: 01:32:00
Режиссер: Radley Metzger Студия: Synapse Film
Язык: Английский Субтитры: English
В ролях: Rebecca Brooke (as Anne (as Mary Mendum)), Carl Parker (as Jean), Marilyn Roberts (as Claire), Yvette Hiver, Michelle Vence, Estelle McNalley, Nicole Rochambeau
Описание: [i]Based on the novel by “Jean De Berg” (the non de plume of Catherine Robbe-Grillet), the story is very much what you might expect from this genre. Going back to Pauline Raege’s The Story of O and even further back to Laclos’s Les Liaisons dangereuses, these stories present a voyeuristic tour of the world of the decadent rich and their very private and often perverse games involving power and sex.
Metzger’s visual treatment of The Image goes beyond his work in Misty Beethoven and harks back to his earlier, more formal films like Therese and Isabelle and Camille 2000. But here he combines his amazing sense of visual composition and rhythmic editing with a sincere attempt to examine this complex sexual triangle. Metzger and his cast are brutally direct and quite fearless in telling this story. There are few films that venture seriously into the areas that this one does. Metzger stylizes, but refuses to let the sex scenes descend into black comedy in order to let the viewer off the hook. In this way, The Image becomes a very odd experience to watch, especially when our protagonist Jean becomes a willing participant in some of the more violent activities. The character steps away from being our guide to the action, and steps into the action himself, leaving the viewer alone to make up their own mind about what is being presented.
