Le duo de la mort

Titre original : Femina ridens

1969
R
1h 30min

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6,8/10

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Philippe Leroy and Dagmar Lassander in Le duo de la mort (1969)

Witness the ultimate subjugation of a woman to serve the most twisted desires of man in the achingly hip Â‘n' horny Femina Ridens, where the kinkiest urges are played to a deadly conclusionÂ…
The beautifully sensuous Dagmar Lassander stars as Maria, the living sex toy of Dr Sayer (Philippe Leroy) who delights in killing women at the point of orgasm. Sayer's prolonged campaign of degradation pushes Maria right to the edge of death but the spell she casts on him will lead to the most extraordinary climax of a lifetime!

Stylish, imaginative and deliciously twisted, this kitschy 60s pop art erotica-fest boasts gorgeous set design, an even more alluring leading lady and a heady desire to please the viewer with increasingly bizarre and dangerous sex games.

Rebuilding The Frightened Woman has been a labour of love but thanks to the work of genre expert Marc Morris the Shameless version of The Frightened Woman runs at 86m 03secs compared to the 83m 25 secs run time supplied by the licensor.

In order to create this new Shameless version they have used a wide variety of source materials that widely vary in quality but they believe that the end result shows off the film in the complete form it has long deserved to be celebrated in including the correct colour palette.

Shameless have kept director Piero Schivazappa informed throughout the process and asked him to watch through it for them and see if he could give it his seal of approval. He kindly sat through it, with script in hand and felt that, "it is as faithful as it can be to the original script", and was very happy to see the film brought back to life in this Shameless version declaring, "This IS the version of my film to watch."

Shameless Screen Entertainment release The Frightened Woman on DVD. The Shameless director approved cut will run at 86m 03secs and is being released uncut by the BBFC for the first time in the UK.

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Un homme riche et sadique avec un penchant pour les femmes dégradantes kidnappe et soumet une journaliste à des jeux S&M désagréables, mais elle commence bientôt à le renverser.Un homme riche et sadique avec un penchant pour les femmes dégradantes kidnappe et soumet une journaliste à des jeux S&M désagréables, mais elle commence bientôt à le renverser.Un homme riche et sadique avec un penchant pour les femmes dégradantes kidnappe et soumet une journaliste à des jeux S&M désagréables, mais elle commence bientôt à le renverser.

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Anecdotes
Dagmar Lassander said this was her personal favorite among her movies.

Gaffes
When the train passes, full of musicians playing woodwinds, they are all seen blowing their instruments almost 10 seconds before a single saxophone is heard on the soundtrack, and then the musician's fingering doesn't match the sustained notes heard.

Citations
Voice over Loudspeaker.: [in typically bright, matter-of-fact announcer's voice] Aries, with Mars on the ascendant, tends to produce a homosexuality. If you were born on one of the last days of the month, these inclinations towards inversion will be confined to the subconscious. Taurus, with Venus on the ascendant, will favor narcissism and masturbation. The tranquilizing influence of the full moon at the moment of birth channels the onanistic instinct toward extroversion. Gemini, with Mercury on the ascendant, will emphasize masochism and sadism. If you were born during the early morning hours, your tendency will be towards masochism, with a sublimation of the sadistic urge. Cancer, with the Moon on the ascendant, highlights necrophilia. However, as the subject will rarely find occasion to indulge in this practice, most Cancerians will be drawn to scopophilism as a satisfying alternative. If the moon was in the first quarter at the time of birth, these tendencies will be manifested in a perfectly straightforward way. You have been listening to "Sexual Aberrations and the Stars."

Versions alternatives
The initial 1998 UK Salvation video was cut by 16 secs by the BBFC to remove photographic shots of women being tortured, though the later re-release mistakenly featured the uncut version. The 2008 Shameless DVD was fully uncut and featured an extended version with additional footage.

Connexions
Featured in Eurotika!: So Sweet, So Perverse (1999)

Bandes originales
Femina Ridens
Written by Giulia De Mutiis (as DeMutiis), Piero Schivazappa (as Schivazappa) and Stelvio Cipriani (as Cipriani)
Sung by Olympia
With the participation of Alessandro Alessandroni's Cantori Moderni Di Alessandroni (as Alessandro Alessandroni's 'Modern Singers')

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A brilliant slice of 60s sexploitation!

'The Frightened Woman' is a wonderful slice of 60s sexploitation - stylish, erotic and camp to the nth degree! Fans of Jess Franco's non-horror movies like 'Succubus' and 'Sadisterotica', or Dallamano's underrated 'Venus In Furs' (aka 'The Devil In The Flesh') will eat this baby up! Philippe Leroy is well cast as Sayer, the rich, jaded sadist who likes to degrade women for kicks, and Dagmar Lassander (who some may remember from Fulci's so-so 'House By The Cemetery') is equally good as the inquisitive journalist who unexpectedly finds herself trapped in his vicious games. She surprises Sayer (and us) by subverting his tricks and tortures, and takes him on a journey that he could never have foreseen, and the ending may be slightly predictable, but is still worth waiting for. Like much of Franco's output from the same period, this movie is equals parts art and trash, with many psychedelic touches, some very effective, and others unintentionally hilarious. You either dig this era and these kinds of movies, or you don't. I do, and I loved it. An underrated movie that deserves a much larger audience.