Fetishes

English documentarian Nick Broomfield made this film about the world of S & M as practised at Pandora's Box, an up-scale house of bondage on Manhattan's ritzy Fifth Avenue, for HBO as a side project to his Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam which was released the previous year.

Whilst not having the drama of the earlier film or its broad moral applicability, it is an intriguing catalogue of a sub-culture which is both very strange and apparently very ordinary. Broomfield clearly has a knack for ingratiating himself with his subjects on both sides of the whip and the outcome is a remarkably candid portrait of a rarely aired topic.

DVD Extras: The disc forms part of the 2 volume Kaleidoscope release of Broomfield films. The brief introduction by Broomfield to this film is taken from the informative featurette, A Nick Bromfield History, which appears on Chicken Ranch as part of Volume 1: Adventures in the Sex Trade.

Available from: Shock Entertainment

 

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