The Duke of Burgundy (2014)

Titled after a butterfly native to Britain, this intense drama focuses on a romantic relationship between two entomologists that begins to crumble as their role playing takes an emotional strain on the woman forced to play dominant by her masochistic girlfriend. Lusciously photographed, with several shots that slowly travel up and down butterfly displays, and beginning with opening credits in the fashion of a late 1960s or early 1970s movie, 'The Duke of Burgundy' is a visually arresting experience and the detailed costumes are impressive too. The film also benefits from a lack of exposition; at first, the submissive woman appears to the dominant's maid and our preconceptions are further challenged as it is slowly revealed that the submissive one has all control in the relationship, often uncomfortably coaxing her lover into improvising speeches and punishments to help her achieve satisfaction. Interesting as all this might sound, the completely non-explicit way that their interactions are filmed takes away much of the intimacy with no nudity and precious few moments of them close together. The repetitiveness of their routines also grows tiresome, if somewhat appropriately so to reflect the dominant one's disenchantment with their affair. Certainly, there is enough of interest here to make the film worth a look, but one's mileage will probably vary.

I like watching movies without reading the synopsis first, that way I was surprised after the suspenseful first scenes of the movie. I thought I was about to watch a relationship unfold, when in reality, it was already way past its honeymoon phase.Submission and domination, but who's really in charge? Cynthia, who's the older in the relationship, feels just so afraid of loneliness she has adjusted to the high and super specific demands of his younger sub, Evelyn. Cynthia cages herself in tight corsets and thights, scripts and an exhausting way of living provided by her lover, and it doesn't come off natural to her. To make insatiable Evelyn happy, she sleeps alone at night and has to still remain watchful in case the word that haunts her comes out of the cage. "Pinastri". And on again the next day, when Evelyn finds something new (or wants to revive the old desires) and demands her lover to pull the act. Cynthia becomes frustrated trying, but still does, in fear of losing her only one.I loved the romance and aesthetic. The butterfly studies give it a poetic magic. I didn't like certain pauses in the movie that kind of made it bland, but I still believe is a highly recommended film for those interested in "unusual love" and sexuality movies.

duke of Burgundy 2014 is one of the worst films of 2014 its just a lame lesbian perverted fantasy filled with cheap thrills in the name of erotica nothing more.i have seen plenty of soft core porn films i can easily say they have much better hot scenes then this one.no doubt the film is cinematic it the camera work is amazing but the whole idea of this film sucks i like lesbian film but this one sucked for me cant say about others this is my opinion.the story is about a women who collects butterflies meets another female who is a servant later they are attracted to each other have sex & their relationship turns into a never ending sadly sexual soap opera.the whole film from start to finish is boring the makers wanted to present this as a art film but failed,the characters are not interesting at all specially the leads both of the actresses are beautiful but script does not do justice the dialogs are written by kids i guess.the cast got wasted here Chiara D'Anna & Sidse Babett Knudsen do their best they look sexy but thats it where is the good character conversation & dialogs the only good character of the carpenter is played by Fatma Mohammed the moment she appears on screen in the black dress she stole the show.i like depressing movies but this one was trying to hard to make a impact visuals alone just don't make a great project you have to relate to audience & give a good plot.i just could not connect with this film i have no problem that it runs to long but damn it was boring the only thing this film reminded me of was the Terrance Stamp old 1960s film called The Collector & trust me thats only because of the butterflies.and there is not a single man seen in this film not that i wanted to see some hot scenes between a man & a woman but this so called lesbian film have nothing to offer i mean where is the hot scene these women were just smelling each other.overall this film is a waste of time & money don't watch it even if its given to you for free,try some Stanley Kubrick movie any day but stay away from this.this film is a biggest fraud ever there is not a single erotic scene here the blue is the warmest color was way better then thisMy Rating for The Duke Of Burgundy is 2/10:Skipp it

This movie tries to be so many things, and fails at all, the one thing it excels at is being a complete waste of time.The people writing good reviews for this film are either somehow affiliated with it, or truly have no idea what a decent movie is.The entire movie is based on little scripts the two women rehearse, and there is maybe three of them, and then it's a simple matter of 'rinse and repeat'.I have NO IDEA why the director thought that a woman peeing into another woman's mouth would be in any way appealing to anyone, apart of course for those out there that are extremely kinky, of course you don't see this, thank god for that, but you do hear it.As I mentioned the movie just repeats itself over and over again until it ends, it's just utter crap, and there are moments in the film where there is insanely annoying sounds with obscure images in the background, it's like the director/editors had completely run out of ideas and put these bits in to simply make the movie longer, of course they would have been doing us all a favor had they simply left them out, or better still, never made the movie in the first place.ABSOLUTE GARBAGE!.