
The setting is a Central European kingdom, near the turn of the century. Bored by his very proper wife, the youthful heir to the throne spends his time in amorous dalliances at a sprawling country estate. His wife departs at the arrival of his friends, and they organize a celebration which becomes a wild orgy and culminates in death and tragedy.... (Full plot summary below)
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The setting is a Central European kingdom, near the turn of the century. Bored by his very proper wife, the youthful heir to the throne spends his time in amorous dalliances at a sprawling country estate. His wife departs at the arrival of his friends, and they organize a celebration which becomes a wild orgy and culminates in death and tragedy.
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| User ReviewPaul TAlong with Liliana Cavani's 'Beyond Good and Evil' which dramatised a menage a trois featuring Friedrich Nietzche, Lou Andres-Salome and Paul Rees - and to a lesser degree Pasolini's 'Teorema' -, Private Vices, Public Virtues became my introduction to mainstream European cinematic erotica in the 1970s. While my memories of PVPV are a little more faded than BG&E - which was akin to being belted over the head wiith a sexual sledge-hammer - both are films which had a definite impact on my formative years cinematically speaking, and both a films which I would dearly love to see again as an adult. |