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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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