![]() ![]() There's no fantasy world to get lost in, which this kind of story should provide to you. Again, there's lots of nudity, but none of it smolders. The gap between her front teeth and her school-girl bob don't help much to create the look of a sexual creature, either. She treats sex with as much heat as if she were stringing beads at summer camp, and with about that much maturity. There is no sense of lust, of craving, of submission, of yielding herself to the moment. O (and I guess we have to blame the director for her confused portrayal, not Ciardi) has the gravitas of someone who just doesn't get sex. The whipping in this move? Lame beyond belief. In this version, O objects and they say, "Oh, OK." Good grief. She even gets her ass whipped for no reason at all, which is actually the best reason there is. As for the château, in the Jaeckin version, when O doesn't obey, she gets her ass whipped, hard, from here to sunrise. One begins to wonder why Sir Stephen, played by the talented Neil Dickson, after all her vacillating even wants to give her the time of day. Take me," and, "Are you kidding? Why would I want to do that?" O has to buy into the fantasy, the commitment to subservience, for the viewer to buy into it as well. Except in Danielle's portrayal, she gets deep into submission when she is at the château, but as soon as she goes home, it's "OK, whatever." She keeps going back and forth between, "I'm yours. ![]() That's the whole sexual fantasy the story speaks to. She is supposed to give herself completely to Rene and then Sir Stephen to do with her as they please. The problem is with the film's conception of O. You just don't see 'em like that very often. ![]() The Award of Merit in this regard goes to Ciardi's backside. Let's get clear right off the bat that there is a lot of nudity in the movie: pretty, naked women all over the place, no disappointments there. This version of the classic story of sexual submission pulls its punches so often you wonder why it was even made. You want a wimpy O? Let me introduce you to Danielle Ciardi. But now there's Story of O: Untold Pleasures. When the Just Jaeckin film version of Story of O came out in 1975, many reviewers criticized Corrine Cléry for being a wimpy O. ![]()
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