D/S, a film at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma

From Oct 7th to Oct 18th Montreal is hosting the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, a festival dedicated to the dissemination and development of new trends in the field of cinema and new media. And this year they have a BDSM related film!
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D/S in the International Panorama Section
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Jacques Richard, Maîtresse Léïa | France | 2009 | 84 min. | couleur | French (s.t. English)
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Oct 8th -  Cinéma du Parc 1 – 9 pm
Oct 9th РCin̩ma du Parc 2 Р1:15 pm
Oct 13th – Ex-Centris – Fellini – 15:15 pm
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To see them on the street, you wouldn’t know it. You might even think they were a little square. But safe inside the walls of their torture chambers and other shadowy places, in the privacy of a relationship with a submissive client, these women assume their other identity, that of the dominatrix. D/s (in French, the letters sound like “goddess”) is a self-styled “s+m comedy” in which Jacques Richard (Le fantôme d’Henri Langlois) and Mistress Léïa place us in the capable hands of Mistress Amazon (born in Houilles at a clinic named “Dungeon”—you couldn’t make that up!). She introduces us to a tribe of sado-females at a private party in Belgium. Latex, whips and hot wax, sure. But also confidences and reasons why. This is an inside look at a taboo world and the filmmakers begin by telling the uninitiated what to expect: “The work may disturb the romantic among you”. Be warned. There is no false modesty here. It’s all stunningly frank, dedicated to 18th-century feminist and political activist Olympe de Gouges, author of The Rights of Women and of the Citizen, and featuring men and women who wanted to see what lies at the end of pain, in hopes it might be pleasure.
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Also interesting for some into horror, lesbian medical play…Bandaged in the International Panorama Section
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Once upon a time, in a place far away… Lucille lives in a creepy mansion out in the middle of nowhere with her great-aunt and her father, an authoritarian surgeon. She is a romantic who dreams of escaping and in a gesture of desperation, decides to kill herself. But her attempt is unsuccessful, leaving half of her face disfigured. Her father treats her at home—he’s a specialist in a particular kind of skin grafting—and hires Joan, a vindictive nurse with a mysterious past, to help Lucille get back to normal. The relationship between Joan and Lucille quickly becomes something other than nurse and patient. Maria Beatty (The Black Glove), an established director of erotic lesbian films, offers this polished and intelligent thriller where sex, science and love are entangled in a dance of sensual and perverse pleasure. Produced by Abel Ferrara and Jürgen Brunning (Bruce LaBruce’s producer), Beatty’s film uses conventions of film noir and gothic horror to explore boundaries of pleasure and pain.