Jessica Shires and Samm Deighan join Mike for a deep, unflinching look at Just Jaeckin’s The Story of O (1975), the adaptation of Pauline Réage’s notorious novel. Corinne Cléry embodies O with startling vulnerability as she’s led by her lover René (Udo Kier) into the secretive Chateau at Roissy—an isolated world of ritual, discipline, and erotic power exchange.<br /><br />The conversation opens up the film’s legacy, its aesthetics, and its complicated relationship to the source text’s authorship and mythology. The episode also features two illuminating interviews: Pola Rapaport, director of The Writer of O, discusses the real story behind Dominique Aury and the creation of the literary sensation; and Maya Gallus, director of Erotica: A Journey Into Female Sexuality (1997), explores the film’s place in a broader lineage of women’s erotic expression, taboo-breaking, and cinematic desire.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support</a>.<br /><br />Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at <a href="http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth </a>
