We are in London, in full Victorian age. Those invited to the presentation of the new book of Dr. Jekyll (Udo Kier) are slowly being decimated by the same demon Mr. Hyde, which brings with it death and destruction. Everything seems to have already written, when ... (I apologize to everyone but I had to clear some revealing scenes in the film, I assure you that the vision will not be compromised.)
Walerian Borowczyk was a distinguished Polish director for the powerful surrealism in his works. N her career she has pursued a number of critical concepts through the most grotesque and bizarre ways of taking advantage of staging the most unusual and symbolic. The first steps in the film are ascribed to animation, where he created award-winning short films such as Les Astronautes , Renaissance, Les Jeux Des Anges . After moving to the erotic movie, will have the opportunity to criticize conventions and charges through the liberalization of a deep eroticism but never free or misplaced. Among his most successful movies include, Queen of the Night, Three Women Immoral?, The Art of Love and the Beast.
Do not forget this horror that brings to life the legend of Dr. Jekyll in an original way, using an elegant and valuable direction.
The personal interpretation of the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson by Walerian Borowczyk film material is shaped in the likeness of their (hypocrites) protagonists. Cinema cannibal who eats words spoken by different characters, their feminine attitudes. All apparently different but actually share from (unconscious) subject to the constraints of a middle class and a society that through information prohibitions and under the shield of morality (as well as of religion) does nothing but generate identical animals sexually repressed all'assatanato Mr. Hyde, this means punishing a foul murder of 35 cm.
All Shared, without exception, are despicable as the mad murderess in the film that - unlike other shows, at least the intellectual honesty to break free of the constraints and to be honest, giving freedom to outsource its true nature. Its, only real purpose is to tear the membranes of young women with her Hymen State player, to mate wildly and has no need of kindness and courtesy that according to the dominant species, are the commonplace conditions of courtship, in turn, ordained to the sexual act. No. The sincerity always get to the point, freedom to the primordial state, the victory of the moral nature. A real beast to its most primitive stage but for free from this double purpose. Anywhere, with anyone. Almost wanted to execute the famous quote from Dr. Johnson "who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" . And there just to try worth seeing the inner mediocrity of the various characters "human".
The other bystanders at the table Jekyll at home, in fact, the venerable general (Patrick Magee of Clockwork Orange) to Dr. Lanyon (a beautiful Howard Vernon) behind the mask of austerity, serious, friendly, beyond the verbiage of their speeches conservatives, are able to express their true nature (and nature) only when they can to be alone with themselves and protected by a hood that will not expose the actions to daylight, concealing their unspeakable aberrations. Several scenes illustrate this concept: the general group leader ( Patrick Magee), following the uproar caused by the first murder by Hyde, the profit of the confusion to slap the buttocks of his daughter alone in a room, away from prying eyes. Why was granted, without inhibiting the manic, punishing this sort of fallocrate. An action - under the eyes of various social classes - would have activated the mechanism of constraints and judgments, creating the conditions to discourage such a punitive action.
And here the theory of Dr. Jekyll (Udo Kier to the most senior artists) and his transcendence (shown in her book) is - at least in part - endorsed. He believes that with appropriate experiments on human nature may be subject to division, separating the good from the bad. Only the characters staged by the "Boro" do everything possible to achieve this metamorphosis without the aid of experiments psychomagic or transcendence, but by compulsion whims of fate. And then, through a change of perspective, perhaps Lanyon rival the right rough, that his theory is linked to ideas retrive the body can not tolerate general laws dealing with metaphysics and there is no need of experiments to separate the two parts, but only the weakening of rules, religions and traditions consolidated in time? And the battle will continue, always, in that house furnished with taste, but that reeks of prejudice and rot within.
Do not forget this horror that brings to life the legend of Dr. Jekyll in an original way, using an elegant and valuable direction.
The personal interpretation of the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson by Walerian Borowczyk film material is shaped in the likeness of their (hypocrites) protagonists. Cinema cannibal who eats words spoken by different characters, their feminine attitudes. All apparently different but actually share from (unconscious) subject to the constraints of a middle class and a society that through information prohibitions and under the shield of morality (as well as of religion) does nothing but generate identical animals sexually repressed all'assatanato Mr. Hyde, this means punishing a foul murder of 35 cm.
All Shared, without exception, are despicable as the mad murderess in the film that - unlike other shows, at least the intellectual honesty to break free of the constraints and to be honest, giving freedom to outsource its true nature. Its, only real purpose is to tear the membranes of young women with her Hymen State player, to mate wildly and has no need of kindness and courtesy that according to the dominant species, are the commonplace conditions of courtship, in turn, ordained to the sexual act. No. The sincerity always get to the point, freedom to the primordial state, the victory of the moral nature. A real beast to its most primitive stage but for free from this double purpose. Anywhere, with anyone. Almost wanted to execute the famous quote from Dr. Johnson "who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" . And there just to try worth seeing the inner mediocrity of the various characters "human".
The other bystanders at the table Jekyll at home, in fact, the venerable general (Patrick Magee of Clockwork Orange) to Dr. Lanyon (a beautiful Howard Vernon) behind the mask of austerity, serious, friendly, beyond the verbiage of their speeches conservatives, are able to express their true nature (and nature) only when they can to be alone with themselves and protected by a hood that will not expose the actions to daylight, concealing their unspeakable aberrations. Several scenes illustrate this concept: the general group leader ( Patrick Magee), following the uproar caused by the first murder by Hyde, the profit of the confusion to slap the buttocks of his daughter alone in a room, away from prying eyes. Why was granted, without inhibiting the manic, punishing this sort of fallocrate. An action - under the eyes of various social classes - would have activated the mechanism of constraints and judgments, creating the conditions to discourage such a punitive action.
And here the theory of Dr. Jekyll (Udo Kier to the most senior artists) and his transcendence (shown in her book) is - at least in part - endorsed. He believes that with appropriate experiments on human nature may be subject to division, separating the good from the bad. Only the characters staged by the "Boro" do everything possible to achieve this metamorphosis without the aid of experiments psychomagic or transcendence, but by compulsion whims of fate. And then, through a change of perspective, perhaps Lanyon rival the right rough, that his theory is linked to ideas retrive the body can not tolerate general laws dealing with metaphysics and there is no need of experiments to separate the two parts, but only the weakening of rules, religions and traditions consolidated in time? And the battle will continue, always, in that house furnished with taste, but that reeks of prejudice and rot within.
Other character set is the priest. Subject right from the start that looks suspicious to Jekyll's fiancee, Fanny (a bloodless ethereal, amazing and sensual Marina Pierro). This game looks way to ending it, too, in a room while the rest of the group is concentrated in hunting down the mad murderess and the girl without her shoulder protector (the dr. Jekyll). And the gesture of asking a needle and thread is just an excuse to spend the evening with her, in those four walls. Idea that is softened by the young man who goes to the roots off the invader.
Dr. Lenyon ( Howard Vernon) is another form unable to secure cooperation with the harmonious working Mr Jekyll. He, perhaps pretext, no qualms about openly criticize the ideas of his rival, even before the other, to allow all'aulicità of his speeches and intrusive dialectics fail to mention any contrary opinion. But before succumbing to the "discovery" of the transformation of the enemy-friend with the help of solicor (a prepared chemical blood-colored), killed by his own thoughts, the idea that such a discovery would revolutionize the world of science, and relegating the final borders on the edge of the stage against the rival. Hypocrite, who under the guise of the ill-concealed envy and hatred. The two sides of the same medal.
Mr. Hyde ( Gèrard Zalcberg - The Violators of the night) is a depraved praising the character as well as evil and hatred that seems to collect more support from the female gender just because no masks and chastity.
Fanny Osbourne ( Marina Pierro) is certainly the most ambiguous character but also the only one capable of feeling: pure, true, true. One of his sentence illustrates this concept: "I think sometimes you need to kind words. There are moments in which appearances are important, even if they lie . Following the assertion of Patrick Magee "My dear Fanny you're a monster, and the true embodiment of a monumental diversion" . A character then prevailed, at least initially, from a true love of neighbor, even willing to omit to speak uncomfortable truths even to do good to his loved ones. And 'in fact the feeling of love of Dr. Jekyll which allows to immerse themselves in solicor knowingly and give vent to his dark side. And so to burn all books, all the whims, conventions, preconceptions and charges that had limited until then, the old disintegrating personality and giving life to one of the most passionate and hedonists of all times which will find its staff at the end empyrean the film, free from the repression which had hitherto accompanied it.
Pierro's character thus appears to be the balance that works not only between the two parts of Jekyll same work but in the first place, as it is the only one still tied to a concept of carelessness and naive, innocent, free from any evil connotation. As if it were trapped in a limbo where it is located who is still not prepared to yield to the allurements of sin, as if there was one last obstacle to the attainment of an inner and eradicate corruption and for all the basic innocence. Limitation here is emphasized by a scene, namely the one where the girl looks at her lover to bathe in a tub full of solicor for the processing, moving behind a giant standing to represent a kind of barrier, the Maginot Line that she still must pass to reach the perfect climax of depravity, perversion and disinhibition that has plagued flame.
Pierro's character thus appears to be the balance that works not only between the two parts of Jekyll same work but in the first place, as it is the only one still tied to a concept of carelessness and naive, innocent, free from any evil connotation. As if it were trapped in a limbo where it is located who is still not prepared to yield to the allurements of sin, as if there was one last obstacle to the attainment of an inner and eradicate corruption and for all the basic innocence. Limitation here is emphasized by a scene, namely the one where the girl looks at her lover to bathe in a tub full of solicor for the processing, moving behind a giant standing to represent a kind of barrier, the Maginot Line that she still must pass to reach the perfect climax of depravity, perversion and disinhibition that has plagued flame.
The idea that I gained after watching, but I must point out that there would be more than ten thousand to clarify, I said, the idea certainly is more dominant that all the characters seem to have one goal in mind. That of the copula, the ultimate goal that everyone decides to get through the adoption of their choices. There are those who through deception and artifice intellectuals and those who try to impress the opposite cares and treats women as cannon fodder. And in the end will be idolized the animal instinct, the fatal drive capable of overwhelming any kind of decency.
On the everything is designed in accordance with the technical details. Perfect characters in their theoretical character, arranged so that they can all be a bit 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, all the same, but never the same. Picture perfect, reminiscent of other times and contexts of the fundamental and unique. The music of Bernard Parmegiani devilishly accompany the staging of invasive and allowing the resulting stress markedly and progressively penetrate the inner corruption of the characters in the depths of delirium. One of the best
transpositions of Stevenson's novel.
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Blood of Dr Jekyll
Bloodlust - U.S. video title
Dr. Jekyll and His Wives
Dr. Jekyll and His Women - U.S. title
Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
Dr. Jekyll and his wives - Dutch title
Nel Profondo del Delirio - Italian title
The Blood of Doctor Jekyll
The Bloodbath of Doctor Jekyll - UK video title
The Experiment - UK video title
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Lady Osbourne
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
Tri Jekyll ja Mr. Hyde - Finnish title
Walerian Borowczyk: Tri Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Finnish title
