Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye (2004)

Directed by

Andrew Repasky McElhinney

Genre

drama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 21m

Rated

NR

Rating

3.4 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film takes place in an abandoned house where a group of people silently engage in sexual acts from evening to morning. As daylight arrives the encounters become increasingly disturbing.

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What happens

Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye is a 2004 American drama film based on the 1928 novel Story of the Eye by the French writer Georges Bataille. The film, directed by Andrew Repasky McElhinney, takes place in a seemingly abandoned house where a group of people engage in wordless acts of passion. The film covers a period from evening to morning, and the sexual couplings among the members of the house become increasingly harrowing as daylight arrives. Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye began as a video installation before being reconfigured into a feature-length film. Variety wrote that the movie affirmed McElhinney's "certifiable coolness." The movie premiered in New York City in September 2004. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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