Saturday | November 4, 2017 7:00 pm

Fruits of Passion
(Les fruits de la passion)

Screening on Film

Directed by Shuji Terayama.
With Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Illiers, Arielle Dombasle.
France/Japan, 1981, 35mm, color, 90 min.
French, Japanese, English & Cantonese with English subtitles.
Print source: The Japan Foundation

A heady admixture of sexual and anti-imperialist fantasy, Fruits of Passion is a loose adaptation of Pauline Réage’s sequel to her erotic classic The Story of O and stars Klaus Kinski as a lecherous and wealthy wastrel. Although operating in a more lush and theatrical vein than Nagisa Oshima or Koji Wakamatsu, Terayama shares his contemporaries’ fascination with the possibilities and limits of the intermingling of sexual and political revolution.