The man behind Berberian Sound Studio has made a strange, stylish erotic domination love story featuring lesbian entomologists...The Duke of Burgundy.

BLOT: (26 Jan 2015 - 09:21:33 AM)

The man behind Berberian Sound Studio has made a strange, stylish erotic domination love story featuring lesbian entomologists...The Duke of Burgundy.

Berberian Sound Studio was one of my favorite movies to watch last year (or did I see it the year before). It was stylish, strange, almost ethereal. The ending is odd and unclassifiable, and the sense of dread and despair is eked out of simple moments, largely tied into the spectre of loneliness and confusion. Toby Jones is a delight, and it immediately made me want to go on the lookout for more by director/writer Peter Strickland. Looks like that time is now, with The Duke of Burgundy.

It appears to be stylishly-erotic, strange movie featuring two women in a lesbian relationship mostly marked by domination and doubt, and at least one of the women is either an entomologist or has a hobby of moths (even the title refers to a type of butterfly), and there are some questions of identity as hinted about by some wigs and changes of costume. I think. From what I can tell with the brief reviews I've glanced at, it involves no nudity and only hints of sex, and assuming it follows Strickland's formula in Berberian Sound Studio, I have a feeling that there will be moments of loss-of-coherence. I'm excited for it, and not entirely in the wa-hey! sense. Berberian Sound Studio is possibly the most Aickman of any movie I have seen, an ode to the absurdity of life from someone trickling towards the edge of normality with a hint of something like fear but not quite, not always. That might not be the case, here, but I sure hope it is.

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