7/10
An unsettling trip into decadence, eroticism, and bondage
7 October 2008
Warning: Spoilers
The film is excellently photographed and edited… There is much artistry in the acting, especially by Dirk Bogarde, who is able to genuinely convey strong mixed emotions…

An ex-Nazi scientist hides out as a porter in a German hotel after the War... One day a very rich woman enters the place, a woman he recognizes as one of his concentration-camp sex-experiment subjects... She recognizes him too, but instead of turning him over to the authorities, she strikes up a dead and perverse relationship with him and slips back into her role as a sex slave…

The movie carefully moves from a slightly romantic byplay to a sexually perverse relationship between the two people, ending in a controversial scene where the woman is chained inside an apartment and repeatedly raped… Most disturbing is the film's accuracy, despite its rather unorthodox development...

The motion picture is not necessarily stimulating, but seriously portrays the damage that can be done by sexual abuse
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