CommentsXp Best movie ever!

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

TdSmth5 A naked guy jumps around his palatial estate. He kisses girls and hugs guys. All the while musicians play something in the background. This takes forever so I started fast-forwarding. He and his crew prepare for some lavish party. Soon after the party begins the clothes start coming off as the guests dance and giggle in a scene that takes forever. As the night progresses inhibitions start falling as well. Some guys in uniform appear and witness the debauchery. The naked guy also wears occasionally a uniform. Next day, more uniformed guys show up to threaten the guy but things don't turn out as they planned.Private Vices, Public Pleasures is absolute junk unless you enjoy ridiculous time-piece musicals mixed with some aberrant sexual stuff. Story-wise there's not much going on. There some tasteless twist about the identity of one of the girls there.As other reviews point out, the characters here are very freely based on historically characters but knowing that doesn't make this movie any better. Even if you're looking for titillation, this movie offers very little except for male genitalia.

zetes A very sexually explicit art film made by the Hungarian Jancso in Italy. Crown Prince Rudolf is about to ascend to the throne when his father abdicates. His father disapproves of his overly sexual lifestyle (he is married, but spends most of his time boinking an incestuous brother and sister couple). Rudolf embraces the depravity, hating his father. Much of the film takes place during a day-long orgy, which involves a hermaphrodite (Teresa Anne Savoy, who also starred in sexploitation classics Salon Kitty and Caligula; in reality, Savoy is a woman). This film doesn't contain the impressive long takes of the two other Jancso films I've seen since his death, The Red and the White and Electra My Love, but the cinematography is still very gorgeous. If nudity and sex don't bother you, this is actually quite a good film. The copy I saw was dubbed into English, but, since it's an Italian movie with an international cast, it would have been dubbed anyways.

Rod Evan This is an excellent film, with an unfortunate and misguided bad reputation. Partly because Jancso antagonised the critics by including explicit (for its time) sex when they had been used to more "political" content. Jancso used the sexuality in his film to point out that we live in a repressive society and showed that the characters in his film were willing, up until the point of death, to live out their free attitudes towards sexuality. This was and still is a subversive issue as sexuality still seems to need some dismal excuse for inclusion in non-pornographic films. In this film Jancso was bold enough to present eroticism within a deliberately anarchic context. Contrary to other readers comments this film is neither boring nor rubbish. The fact also that it has homosexual imagery disturbs a lot of narrow minded viewers, but there again Jancso showed these images to represent a multi-sexual utopia. This utopia of course in the film had to be destroyed. You can't get more political than that.

succentor This is a brilliant, phantasmagorical film which offers a good start for the discussion of how to mix sexuality and innocence. Lots of nudity makes it pleasant on the eye; but it's also got an interesting twist on an intriguing piece of historical mystery. Not much seen since the 70s (when I saw it); but due a revival.