The Story of O (1975)

I'm totally sorry for the 2 hours, I lost watching this movie. If I would have watched a porno, I surely wouldn't regret so much. The movie begins with two lovers sitting on the back sit of a car. After a few minutes, the guy let his lover to be raped and f.... by every other guy in the film. He only kisses her on cheek and introduces her to the next guy. He doesn't even touch her fiancée. In which world do these aliens live? You couldn't even find any ugly old bitch to be behaved like the hot actress in this film. Lots of people raped her, tortured her, whipped her and she only obeyed!! That was nonsense. They are like robots. It is not even arousing. Listen to me, watch a porno instead!

HISTOIRE D'O is famous and yet few will say they've seen it or admit they've seen it. Just look at the few reviews posted here at IMDb. The main reason is simply because the whole thing is risible! It's beautifully shot but still risible. It's almost like an old Benny Hill sketch : O loves Rene but Rene loves Jacqueline who loves Sir Stephen who loves O who loves Jacqueline who loves the fire hydrant. On and on it goes. I truly wondered what planet they were living on since very little of it made sense. Do they ever buy groceries? Wait in line at the bank? You know, things normal mortals do. The story wants us to believe it's all about love but love has nothing to do with the people inhabiting this baroque soft-core reverie. Love? Hahaha!Like all "erotic" films of the period, all women are bisexual, or anythingsexual, ready to take off their filmy clothes for the audiences' viewing pleasure. This brings up the main point of the "film" : the focus is only on the women which makes me wonder why they'd bothered with the male characters, who were very boring. Obviously the director, producers, and writer didn't care for them. They are merrily there to serve a purpose. The film would have been much more honest if the entire cast had been female, which during one segment it was. This is probably the best part of the film, not because it's all female but because the lecherous filmmakers could finally show every detail of the females' bodies along with their "tortured" minds.The only saving grace of this superficial "charnel" nonsense was Corinne Clery. Remove her from the film and there would be nothing left to watch. Corinne was practically naked throughout the film. Her body was perfect back then. In the end, the entire "complex" story, bogged down by its own pretensions and limitations, was bereft of the one thing they wanted to achieve : true eroticism.

This movie gets points for the cinematography and the settings - the castle looks fantastic. Rather than a porno movie, this is more like a story about S & M, and bondage and obedience. There is a lot of female nudity, but no male frontal nudity.The story follows O, a French woman who is taken to a castle by her boyfriend, where she is initiated into submission. Right there I have a problem with the story, because she is suffering through all this to please her boyfriend, played by Udo Kier - now in 1975 Kier looked gay, gay, gay, so why would a woman do all these things for such a gay guy?The random sex maybe typical of porn, but is not necessarily a turn on - one interesting contrast between American porn and French porn is that all the French actresses had small flabby breasts - now you never see that in American porn - American women should be proud of their large, aggressive breasts! The story is more like a male fantasy - this movie would have been better if done with a sense of humor - the fact that this movie takes itself so seriously makes some parts of the story unbelievable. This movie will provide you with some strange entertainment on a rainy night. Just don't expect too much from it.

I am commenting this movie after 32 years lol. (and please forgive my bad English and try to understand me..) I saw it first in 1976, but recently I had the opportunity to see it again, and a lot of particulars I didn't noticed in my boyhood jumped out of the screen today.At first, don't look at the trial O has to face.. the story is about the relationship and the power.. if you think that O was the weak one, you didn't noticed how the story ends..I call this behaviour "topping from the bottom" Every relationship has a balance of power, and usually is not in equilibrium.Going back to the movie (please, remember was filmed in 1975!)superb photography, appropriate music.A detail I noticed after 32 yrs.. when O is bringed into the room, at the beginning, the other girl guide her having a hand over her shoulder.. first act of submission.Of course, the argument is not for all..