Rating: NR
Genre:
Language & Litera
Theatrical Release: 05/06/2005(USA
Release Date: 05/16/2006
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 80 Minutes
Flags: Nudity, Adult Situations, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Zeitgeist Films
In 1954, one of the most notorious
erotic novels of the 20th century was published --
The Story of O by
Pauline Reage, which chronicled in breathless detail the intense sadomasochistic relationship between a submissive woman and a dominant man. For many years, many believed that
Pauline Reage was a pseudonym for a male author, but as it turns out that was only half true. In 1994, journalist
John de St. Jorre, while researching a book on Olympia Press (the fearless French publisher who first published the book) learned that
Pauline Reage was in fact
Dominique Aury, a well-respected and outwardly straight-laced editor for one of Europe's most prestigious publishing houses, Gallimard, who wrote the salacious volume for her lover, another powerful editor at Gallimard,
Jean Paulhan. American filmmaker
Pola Rapaport, who was powerfully effected by reading
The Story of O, traveled to Paris to meet and interview
Aury a few years before her death, and
Writer of O is a
documentary which blends the story of
Aury's remarkable life and times with re-creations of scenes from her best-known work.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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