100 mins |
Rated
R18 (Sex scenes)
Directed by Peter Strickland
Starring Sidse Babett Knudsen, Chiara D'Anna, Monica Swinn, Eszter Tompa, Fatma Mohamed, Kata Bartsch
Catch our Peter Strickland Double Feature on Saturday June 6th! His new feature, the killer dress thriller IN FABRIC will be paired with his acclaimed 70s softcore-pastiche drama THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY (2015).
'In the opulently fetishistic DUKE OF BURGUNDY, two beautiful women enact elaborate rituals of domination and submission in a dark mansion deep in a European forest. A weekly meeting of lepidopterists, bristling with repressed flirtations, is their one respite from domestic role play.'
"There are no men in this surreal world: that eponymous Duke is a butterfly. British filmmaker Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio) is a connoisseur of 70s Euro sexploitation. With only the slyest hints of irony, he divines enduring erotic allure in the absurdly high-toned soft-core porn that once played New Zealand cinemas in copies so heavily truncated by censorship that they always ran in pairs. More consummately coutured (by Andrea Flesch) than its tattered prototypes, The Duke of Burgundy draws impressively nuanced performances from Sidse Babett Knudsen, the Danish PM in Borgen, and Chiara D’Anna." [NZIFF 2015]
$10 Tickets
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Catch our Peter Strickland Double Feature on Saturday June 6th! His new feature, the killer dress thriller IN FABRIC will be paired with his acclaimed 70s softcore-pastiche drama THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY (2015).
'In the opulently fetishistic DUKE OF BURGUNDY, two beautiful women enact elaborate rituals of domination and submission in a dark mansion deep in a European forest. A weekly meeting of lepidopterists, bristling with repressed flirtations, is their one respite from domestic role play.'
"There are no men in this surreal world: that eponymous Duke is a butterfly. British filmmaker Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio) is a connoisseur of 70s Euro sexploitation. With only the slyest hints of irony, he divines enduring erotic allure in the absurdly high-toned soft-core porn that once played New Zealand cinemas in copies so heavily truncated by censorship that they always ran in pairs. More consummately coutured (by Andrea Flesch) than its tattered prototypes, The Duke of Burgundy draws impressively nuanced performances from Sidse Babett Knudsen, the Danish PM in Borgen, and Chiara D’Anna." [NZIFF 2015]
$10 Tickets