Rooted in the plot-flouting sentiments of the 20th century avant-garde, “The Duke of Burgundy” sets out to create an intense sensory experience. Like another recent film, Alain Guiraudie’s ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “The Duke of Burgundy” is a cunning slice of counter-programming, arriving just in time to give fans of “Fifty Shades of Grey” a sly, provocative amuse ...

I know we sometimes give Fifty Shades of Grey a bad rap. After all, it is an insanely popular film about sex and the sexy people who have it — but let’s be honest: Fifty Shades of Grey warped BDSM to ...

Human relationships are by nature unpredictable, anarchic, and subject to all sorts of cracks, frays, rendings, and endings. So too, it turns out, are the romantic foibles of those who would corset ...

If you thought "Fifty Shades Of Grey" was the first film of the year to explore an unconventional sexual relationship, you would be wrong. The plot of "The Duke of Burgundy" reads like a more ...

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U.K.-based filmmaker Peter Strickland’s “The Duke of Burgundy” grapples with the difficulties of pleasing both oneself and a partner in a relationship, but bound up in a way that is sensuous and ...

Hot on the heels of the mega-successful release of the Fifty Shades of Grey movie, comes another S&M tale with a twist, The Duke of Burgundy. Directed by Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio) this ...

As he demonstrated in “Berberian Sound Studio,” Peter Strickland is a talented sculptor of cinematic mood and a serious fan of vintage European exploitation flicks. “The Duke of Burgundy,” his Sapphic ...

With The Duke of Burgundy, the cinephilic English director Peter Strickland has made his third — and perhaps best — film to playfully riff on genre conventions. What begins as a bloodless tale of ...