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Bookmark this pageThe Violation of Justine (1974)
Director: Claude Pierson
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Exceedingly dull porno version of de Sade's Justine, which half-heartedly strives for respectability. To prove that they're performing a classic, no one says one word when ten will do, and the film kicks off with a mini-documentary on de Sade's life and times, concluding with the cheeky suggestion that the whole is designed as a stiff warning against 'unbridled perversity'. But there's nothing unbridled about the perversity on display: as the pure-in-heart heroine, the strapping Alice Arno receives the most routine chastisements before being charmingly struck down by a lightning flash obviously borrowed from one of Corman's Poe adaptations.Author: GB
Cast & crew
Director: Claude Pierson
Producer: Claude Pierson
Cast: Alice Arno, France Verdier, Yves Arcanel, Georges Beauvillier, Dominique Santarelli full cast
Duration: 110 mins
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