Published 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 Rapaport explores Aury's inspiration, recreating the world of '50s literary Paris and setting it against dramatic sequences that bring the infamous book to life. The author as well as various French intellectuals expound on the thorny relationship between sexuality and power, submission and freedom, liberation and non-being.
1972 in Haute-Savoie (France) : the Bertrand's farm, with a hundred dairy cows owned by three bachel...
An hour-long workout with a BDSM theme on a NYC rooftop, taught by a variety of instructors.
At the consulting service for immigrants at the Avicenne Hospital in suburban Paris, we observe the ...
The Bapst Brothers: Romain, Maurice and Jacques – whom we will also meet in The Gruyere Chronicle (p...
How Germany was when its people entered the nightmare of World War II? Despair and fear lead a hungr...
October 2003, Alma and Lila Levy are excluded from the Lycée Henri Wallon in Aubervilliers solely be...
"Race d’Ep!" (which literally translates to "Breed of Faggots") was made by the “father of queer the...
The duel between Pierre Péan and Edwy Plenel revisits some of the great moments of French political ...
In a series of long interviews, 12 prime ministers talk about their experience in the upper echelons...
In 2002, serial killer Patrice Alègre was sentenced to life imprisonment for five murders. Gendarme ...
This is the unlikely story of 21 ministers and prime ministers who have crossed or are crossing the ...
A tribute to the cartoonist and filmmaker Chaval, aka Yvan Francis Le Louarn.
Documentary directed by W.K. Border, that which dives into the aspects of contemporary Gothic subcul...