
Flicks, Giles Hardie
No one can accuse Roman Polanski of taking the easy option. Venus in Fur is a French film, of an English play, about a play, that is an adaptation of a book … in German. Let’s start with the book. Leopold van Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs, a 19th century Austrian work that contributed to the author’s greatest claim to fame – the term “masochism” is derived from his name.
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