Le Jardin des Supplices (1976)

Genres - Drama  |   Sub-Genres - Softcore Sex Film  |   Run Time - 90 min.  |   Countries - France  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Clarke Fountain

Combining softcore pornography and historical romance, this film tells the story of a Antoine, a physician (Roger Van Hool) who, in 1888, has been exiled to China due to his drug habit. On the way there, he gets to know a polymorphously perverse girl (Jacqueline Kerry) who becomes his girlfriend. She is the daughter of a local colonial overlord in Canton, whose cruelty and brutality are legendary. Based on a novel by Octave Mirbeau, this film parallels Antoine's descent into erotic obsession with the increasing degeneracy and precariousness of colonial rule.

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decadence, doctor/nurse, drugs, exile, girlfriend, obsession, sex