Reviews for this film from our members:
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Writer/director Peter Strickland’s latest begins with a bit of an ick factor as his opening lesbian S&M scenario ends with a behind-closed-door ‘punishment’ that sounds dreadful, but trust in this auteur as “The Duke of Burgundy” blossoms into a louche hothouse Gothic that plays like Dario Argento’s “Celine and Julie Go Boating” or Peter Greenaway’s “Angels and Insects.”
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: The movie is intriguingly observant and comical but only up to a point.
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Excerpt: The Visual Beauty of ‘The Duke Of Burgundy’ More Than Makes Up For Its Lack Of Plot
- Roderick Heath @ This Island Rod
- Excerpt: There’s something oddly fussy about Strickland’s filmmaking this time around as well as repetitious, an over-determined quality to his digressive phantasmagoria that means that it never quite catches afire and burns with pure inner life.
- Stacia Kissick Jones @ She Blogged By Night
- Oktay Kozak @ DVD Talk
- Daniel Lackey @ Cinema Axis
- Excerpt: A fascinating portrait of complex relationship dynamics, engrossing in both its story and its aesthetics.
- Matthew Lucas @ From the Front Row
- Excerpt: Strickland’s directorial style feels both timeless and innovative, aesthetically thrilling and psychologically daring. It plays with our expectations, of character, of relationships, of sexuality, and gives us a thriller of surprising and unusual depth.
- Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: Spellbinding, sensuous, erotically charged: Peter Strickland’s The Duke of Burgundy is both a loving ode to the kind of late 60s/early 70s sexploitation helmed by Jess Franco and Radley Metzger, and something of greater design that transcends its genre.
- [New – 2/12/16] | Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: It would be interesting to see how a daring female filmmaker would follow the story’s fetishized elements toward their logical trajectories.
- Sarah Ward @ artsHub
- Ron Wilkinson @ Monsters and Critics
- Excerpt: A deliciously deviant romp into sexual adventure grounded in the real life struggle for enduring intimacy.
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