I met the author, whose real name is Dominique Aury, and she gave me It was an erotic novel I guess you could call it a sadomasochistic fairytaleīecause it’s absolutely a fantasy, nothing that could actually happen in real Was the publisher of a rather notorious novel, Histoire d’O, by Pauline Reage.
Wrote in French, before it came out in English. He brought out the original edition of Hollywood Babylon, which I
When I was living in France,my publisher was Jean-Jacques Pauvert. Apparently the twenty minutes of footage that was successfully shot is lying somewhere in the archives of the Cinematheque Francaise… Ange” was threatened with expulsion by some “magnificently cool guys” from the French government. That this starlet was the daughter of the French minister of finance–and required to wear a chain attached “inside her little down there” for the shoot–ignited such a scandal that “M. Describing the story as “a wanking fantasy, if you know what that means” he claimed that the production was bankrolled by money acquired by the young star’s boyfriend–ransom money from the kidnapping of the nephew of the Citroen car company’s owner. He recounted his failed attempt to direct a feature-length film version of Pauline Reage’s mythic S&M novel The Story of O in Paris (“Don’t try it at home”). I’m not advocating censorship, but to me, porno is a very problematic area because they defeat what they’re doing by having too much and too long and you get very bored with it, it’s like watching a sewing machine or something.įrom what I’ve found so far, it’s unclear how much, if any, of this film was actually shot, or whether it was one of those things that never got out of development hell.Īnother article on Anger says footage was shot, and then the story got even weirder: There are things implied but it’s a bit of a tease. The subject is kinky eroticism but in my concept, I never showed anything. Well, The Story of O, would have been beautiful because I was doing it in the style of Robert Bresson, like Les dames du Bois de Boulogne which is very understated. Of the many longer projects you have conceived of that haven’t been realised, which of them do you most regret not happening?
But even with the help of some literary people I couldn’t find the money to do it so I just move on and make another short film if the longer ones don’t work out. I got permission from the publisher of an erotic book called Histoire d’O, which was later made into a rotten commercial film, which I never saw because it would spoil my vision. Commenter Citizen Kinkster tipped me off about avant garde film director Kenneth Anger and his abortive attempt at making a film of The Story of O.
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