SummaryPublished in Paris in 1954, Story of O was an immediate bestseller and literary scandal: an elegantly written S&M fantasy that had all the hallmarks of being an autobiographical account by the pseudonymous Pauline Réage. In 1994 Dominique Aury, a mild-mannered, dowdy editor for France’s prestigious Gallimard press, revealed her authorship. Pola R... Read More
Directed By:Pola Rapaport
Written By:Pola Rapaport
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31% Positive
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The real reason to see this slight but interesting documentary is to watch and listen to the radiant Aury.
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Touching and sentimental.
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An elegant but muddled affair, worth seeing despite (and maybe because of) its own split personality.
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It is a mash note from first-time filmmaker Pola Rapaport to Aury, but its attempts to dramatize passages of the book are at odds with Aury's advice that "Story of O" was a piece of writing "not meant to be spoken."
50
More speculative than deeply felt.
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A dry compendium of talking-head interviews.
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A most unfortunate film that combines standard documentary techniques, including talking-head interviews, with some maladroit dramatizations from Aury's life and her novel.
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