![]() ![]() Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and based on his own heavily autobiographical play (a veiled version of the triangular relationship between the director, his lover Günther Kaufmann and his assistant/composer Peer Raben), ‘Bitter Tears’ follows the titular fashion designer ( Margit Cartensen) as she falls deeply in love with the beautiful Karin ( Hanna Schygulla) while tormenting her devoted assistant Marlene ( Irm Hermann). Some of the films listed here are obvious precursors to “Fifty Shades Of Grey,” but “The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant” obviously shares DNA with the recently released “ The Duke Of Burgundy” (which is discussed down the list). “The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant” (1972) The film’s raw pain lingers over forty years on. theater showing the film was threatened with bombing, and Bertolucci was convincted of obscenity charges in Italy, but it was also critically lauded, and received Oscar nominations for Best Director and Actor. The film was banned in some countries, edited severely in others, a U.S. The film became most famous for the scene in which Paul sodomizes Jeanne with a stick of butter, but it’s Bertolucci’s investigation of a relationship driven by degradation that feels groundbreaking now: Paul iss wallowing in grief after the suicide of his wife, and inflicts his pain on Jeanne, and yet somehow she can’t keep away. ![]() Basd on the Italian director’s own sexual fantasies, it focuses on the tumultous union between American widower Paul ( Marlon Brando) and young Parisian Jeanne ( Maria Schneider), in a deliberately anonymous sexual relationship with few limits in an empty apartment. But it was Bernardo Bertolucci‘s “ Last Tango In Paris,” a film that in its time was talked about easily as much as “Fifty Shades Of Grey” and which had a seismic impact on mainstream culture, that truly brought BDSM culture to the big screen. Once filmmakers were free to portray sexuality more openly from the 1960s onwards, it took a little while for kink to appear in cinemas frequented by audiences other than the raincoat crowd, though films like Mario Bava‘s “ The Whip & The Body” and Luis Bunuel‘s “ Belle De Jour” included some elements as such. Jamie Dornan Knew Critics Would ‘Despise’ ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ ![]()
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