One Response to “Is Anyone Familiar With The Movie “the Story Of O?” It Is About Sexual Obsession, Can’t Find It. Suggestions?”

1. John P. A Says:
   一月 13th, 2010 at 22:47

   Yes. The book was written by Anne Duclos. Wikipedia summarizes the plot:
   Published in French by Jean-Jacques Pauvert, éditeur, it is a story of female submission about a beautiful Parisian fashion photographer, O, who is blindfolded, chained, whipped, branded, pierced, made to wear a mask, and taught to be constantly available for oral, vaginal, and anal intercourse. Despite her harsh treatment, O grants permission beforehand for everything that occurs, and her permission is consistently sought.
   At the beginning of the story, O’s lover, René, brings her to the château of Roissy, where she is trained to serve the men of an elite group. After this first period of training is finished, as a gesture their bond and his generosity, René hands O to Sir Stephen, a more dominant master. He wants O to learn to serve someone she does not love and who does not love her. Over the course of this training O falls in love with Sir Stephen and believes him to be in love with her as well. While her vain friend and lover, Jacqueline, is repulsed by O’s chains and scars, O herself is proud of her condition as a willing slave. During the summer Sir Stephen decides to move O to Samois, an old mansion solely inhabited by women for advanced training and body modifications related to submission. There she agrees to receive a branding and a labia piercing with rings marked with Sir Stephen’s initials and insignia. At the climax, O appears as a slave, nude but for an owl-like mask, before a large party of guests who treat her solely as an object…..
   French director Henri-Georges Clouzot wanted to adapt the novel to film for many years. It was eventually adapted by director Just Jaeckin in 1975 as Histoire d’O (English: The Story of O), starring Corinne Clery and Udo Kier. The film met with far less acclaim than the book. It was banned in the United Kingdom by the British Board of Film Censors until February 2000.

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