![]() Inanimate objects are again sexualized in a general sensual sense (pornographic renderings and fetishized set design, for example) and, in the case of a batch of bedposts, the literal sense. ![]() Ordinary chores and basic household maintenance – the Marquis sweeping cobwebs from a frame, his son being groomed for presentation, a chef preparing a meal – are treated with the same obsessive-compulsive focus as scenes of amorous horses mating. Despite an established and maintained through-line narrative, it is still an episodic exercise, one that loses itself in the savory qualities of mundane and obscene ritualism. I still think I’d prefer a feature-length version of Immoral Tales’ third story, Erzsebet Bathory, but the expanded The Beast flourishes in ways Immoral Tales does not, largely because it isn’t bogged down by split narrative focus.
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