Beschrijving
Een amerikaanse vrouw, Sara, raakt verwikkeld in een SM relatie met een filmregiseur.
Haar vriendin Belinda die in een relatie zit waarin ongewild misbruik voor komt fungeert als spiegel voor de ontwikkeling van Sara.
Engelstalig.
"Patti Davis, of course, was best known as the daughter of Ronnie and Nancy Reagan. So the idea of her writing a novel about an S&M relationship is irresistible. Once you get past the idea, however, and start to encounter the reality, you realize just how eminently resistible it all is.
This is essentially an airport blockbuster, and I suppose it’s no better or worse than most such products – I don’t know enough to judge it on those terms. But as a psychological study of the nature of sado-masochism, it’s rubbish. The central female character has a certain realism, at least in her background, but the film director with a leaning towards dominance is nonsense. At least he is from my perspective and my experience. Maybe Ms Davis was drawing him from real life and maybe Californian sadists are a horse of a different colour altogether, but I thought he was absurdly one-dimensional.
And the sex scenes fail entirely to work as porn. It's an 'erotic thriller' in the same sense that Shannon Tweed movies are: i.e. it's not erotic and it's not thrilling."
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D (Deelnemer 5) (1960)
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