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A woman who studies butterflies and moths tests the limits of her relationship with her lesbian lover.
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| We Got This CoveredSam WoolfSexy, funny, beguiling, and above all, humane, The Duke of Burgundy does for erotic euro-lesbian thrillers what Under the Skin did for sci-fi. |
| Little White LiesKatherine McLaughlinPeter Strickland's sumptuous, all-female S&M fable is the director's greatest film to date. |
| Empire MagazineKim NewmanOf course, this is a film you have to meet half-way. If you’re willing to enter its world, it’s an immensely rewarding, amusing, wise, melancholy and involving experience. |
| Radio TimesLeslie FelperinVisually ravishing, emotionally wise, and kinky as a coiled rope, writer-director Peter Strickland’s third feature The Duke of Burgundy is a delight. |
| The Arts DeskGraham FullerThe Duke of Burgundy has many deeper, richer shades of complexity than the Hollywood bodice-ripper currently exercising control of the box-office. |
| Times (UK)Wendy IdeA meticulously choreographed erotic theatre. |
| Boston GlobePeter KeoughI have not seen the film “Fifty Shades of Grey” but I doubt that it evokes the mystery, wit, and eroticism that Peter Strickland’s sumptuously claustrophobic fable of women in love does. All without nudity, bad dialogue, or the requisite wooden acting. |
| Toronto StarPeter HowellThe Duke of Burgundy is no mere style exercise or slavish homage. Strickland finds both humour and pathos in the situation of Cynthia and Evelyn, who are every bit as trapped as the insects they collect and catalogue. |
| Globe and MailGeoff PevereThere’s voyeurism, fetishism, bondage, lingerie and high-flown naughtiness galore, but that’s hardly the movie’s most conspicuous achievement. Also at work in this transfixing account of a sado-masochistic relationship on the ropes (so to speak) are a probing intelligence, a catalogue of inspirational cinematic references and – perhaps most impressive – a big, sad, beating heart. |
| Seven DaysMargot HarrisonThe core of psychological believability is what lifts Duke out of the category of "pretty pastiche." |