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erotic – and by now, even painbuffs may be satiated with Nazi decadence,” so readreview of Liliana Cavani’s provocative, controversial 1974 film. And whatever your stance on, there is plenty of pain. Set in Vienna in 1957, it stars Dirk Bogarde as Max, a former SS officer now attempting to bury his past, working as a porter at a high-end hotel.
r polarises opinion. On the one hand, it’s pulp that gets its kick from exploitation – a bad taste eroticising of human suffering; on the other, a poignant love story about two lost souls who would rather destroy themselves than be without one another, a sort ofwith Nazis. Whatever side you watch from, the big plot twist on viewing the film now, however, is quite how shocking it still is. Time has done nothing to diminish that; in fact, it’s difficult to imagine it even being made today.
, his women a symbol of “lethal female resistance”. When what the SS stood for is so obviously abhorrent, wherein lies the appeal of the look? Susan Sontag tackled this head on in her 1975 essay, which questioned why Nazi Germany has become erotic and the SS a symbol of sexual adventurism. “The SS was designed as an elite military community that would be not only supremely violent but also supremely beautiful,” she writes.
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