10 days to the Montreal Fetish Weekend!!!!!!!!!!! GET YOUR PASS

This year’s Montreal Fetish Weekend will be extra exciting as I will be presenting my Cell Popping Workshop. This is truly a unique opportunity for you to learn about a rare form of FIRE PLAY/BRANDING. There are but a handful of qualified people who offer this type of a workshop in the entire world. A special treat: I will create a lovely design on the charming Miss Susan from Toronto. It is a NOT-TO-BE-MISSED event! It is but one of many really fabulous workshops offered this year, even a few exclusively French ones. Just see the current tantalizing list below (may be modified so check the Montreal Fetish Weekend website.)

Workshops will take place Saturday & Sunday Sept 4-5th at the Hotel des Gouverneurs, 1415 St. Hubert Street, in the Ballroom. There are 3 ways to attend workshops:- VIP holders have free access, a $40 per day pass or a $60 weekend pass.

Exclusive LadyEvyl.com offer

SAVE & SUPPORT the ALCC!

Purchase the 60$ 2-DAY WORKSHOP PASS and save 20$ over the regular price at the door purchase price. 25% of all purchases will go to the ALCC, Montreal’s Alternative Lifestyle Community Center.

- Send me an email if you wish to pay by cash, before or at the event , or order via Paypal below

En français

Le Montreal Fetish Weekend cette année sera très excitant car je vais présenter mon atelier de Cell Popping. C’est vraiment une occasion unique pour apprendre une forme rare de JEUX DE FEU/BRANDING. Il existe qu’une poignée de gens qualifiés qui offrent ce type d’atelier dans le monde entier. Une présentation spécials: je vais créer un joli design sur la charmante Miss Susan de Toronto. Il s’agit d’un événement À-NE-PAS-MANQUER! Ceci n’est qu’un des nombreux fabuleux ateliers offerts cette année, certains exclusivement en français. Il ne suffit que de voir l’alléchante liste actuelle ci-dessous (peut être modifié donc vérifier le site Montreal Fetish Weekend.

Les atelier auront lieu Samedi & Dimanche les 4 et 5 Sept à L’Hotel des Gouverneurs, 1415 St. Hubert, dans la Salle de Bal. Il y a 3 façons pour participer aux ateliers: passe VIP (c’est inlcus), la passe 1 jour à $40 ou la passe weekend à $60.

Offre Exclusive sur LadyEvyl.com

ÉCONOMISEZ & ENCOURAGEZ le CCVA!

Achetez la PASSE ATELIER 2-JOURS au coût de 60$ et économisez 20$ sur le coût d’amission à la porte. 25% de ce montant sera remis au CCVA, le Centre Communautaire pour les Styles de Vie Alternatifs de Montréal.

- Envoyez moi un courriel si vous désirez payer comptant, avant ou sur place le jour même, ou commander via Paypal ci-haut

Visit the website of the

MFW WORKSHOPS IN ENGLISH

CELL POPPING – Mystress Lady Evyl

Come learn about the newest unusual branding technique called Cell Popping. This type of branding consists of tiny, round burns on the skin. Hundreds or thousands of these little marks are combined to create a pointillist design.

EROTIC FIREPLAY BASICS – Pierre Black

What you need to know to safely set you partner on fire quite literally! The how, what, where, and why of erotic heat and fire with a special accent on at-home safety and pleasure dynamics for truly hot play!

EXPLORING CONSEQUENCES – Rigger Jay

Come examine mental and physical games of cause and effect, from simple tasks with intriguing rewards/punishments to kinky Rube Goldberg machines.

WAX PLAY – ALL LEVELS – Contessa Alura

This is a hands-on workshop that will cover various aspects for using hot wax as a form of excitement and eroticism for sensual and intense stimulation. All materials provided.

INTRODUCTION TO SUBMISSION WRESTLING – Mr O.

This introductory level session shows the application of submission wrestling for play. The focus is on techniques that are easy to learn and apply, allowing both players to enjoy their scene safely.

FETISH MODELING – Madria

Be it for pleasure of for profesional purposes, this is an interactive workshop that gives women an insight into sensual posing. Come dresed-up in your favorite fetish wear and lets have fun. Starting with a few tips and a brief photo slide show, ladies are then invited step in front of the camera and test their newfound knowledge. Photos will be emailed following the event.

ALTERNATIVE FITNESS – Maiko Starr

A short introduction to pole dancing with basics spin on the pole and choreography.

MASTER / submissive PROTOCOL – Sir Paul

A workshop set to demistify Master/slave roleplay. How to find the proper play partner and insure a lasting, secure and stable play relationship. How to avoid misunderstandings between players.

SPANKING 101 – Master Kindred

Finding the Pleasures & Pain with spanking and percussion play. This work shop is to provide a different vantage on one of the most basic of play tools, the “hands”. Most everyone has them, but not everyone knows all the deviant & fun ways in which you can use them for play.

ELECTRICAL PLAY – Dunter

Discover the world of electrical play. Learn about the functionality and security aspect of electrical toys.

Demonstration and exploration of the known electrical devices such as: tens unit, violet wand, tazer, zapper , fuck machine and electrical collar.

PLEASURE TRAINING – Ze’ev

Imagine, if you will… having a completely mind bending, time distorting, explosive orgasm, sending echoes through each and every part of your body and your mind multiple times, again and again, making you tingly everywhere and unsure whether it’s been a minute, an hour or even a day since that first sensation which sent you into a whirlpool of being so consumed with pleasure, ecstasy and joy, that everything else just ceased to exist.

MFW ATELIER EN FRANÇAIS

HUMILIATION – Dame Elfya

Qu’elle est son bût réel dans le jeu D/s et BDSM alors que celle-ci reste souvent méconnue. L’humiliation représente l’humilité. J’expliquerai l’aspect évolutif et le renforcement positif pour le joueur tout en ayant pour bût de construire une meilleure confiance et estime de soi

RENCONTRE LATEX – Maitresse Zyra & Malcye Doll

DOLLIFICATION – Steffy The Rubber Doll

DRESSAGE – Karen Chessman

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Mystress Lady Evyl, administrator

This year’s Montreal Fetish Weekend will be extra exciting as I will be presenting my Cell Popping Workshop. This is truly a unique opportunity for you to learn about a rare form of FIRE PLAY/BRANDING. There are but a handful of qualified people who offer this type of a workshop in the entire world. A special treat: I will create a lovely design on the charming Miss Susan from Toronto. It is a NOT-TO-BE-MISSED event! It is but one of many really fabulous workshops offered this year, even a few exclusively French ones. Just see the current tantalizing list below (may be modified so check the Montreal Fetish Weekend website.)

Workshops will take place Saturday & Sunday Sept 4-5th at the Hotel des Gouverneurs, 1415 St. Hubert Street, in the Ballroom. There are 3 ways to attend workshops:- VIP holders have free access, a $40 per day pass or a $60 weekend pass.

Exclusive LadyEvyl.com offer

SAVE & SUPPORT the ALCC!

Purchase the 60$ 2-DAY WORKSHOP PASS and save 20$ over the regular price at the door purchase price. 25% of all purchases will go to the ALCC, Montreal’s Alternative Lifestyle Community Center.

- Send me an email if you wish to pay by cash, before or at the event , or order via Paypal below

En français

Le Montreal Fetish Weekend cette année sera très excitant car je vais présenter mon atelier de Cell Popping. C’est vraiment une occasion unique pour apprendre une forme rare de JEUX DE FEU/BRANDING. Il existe qu’une poignée de gens qualifiés qui offrent ce type d’atelier dans le monde entier. Une présentation spécials: je vais créer un joli design sur la charmante Miss Susan de Toronto. Il s’agit d’un événement À-NE-PAS-MANQUER! Ceci n’est qu’un des nombreux fabuleux ateliers offerts cette année, certains exclusivement en français. Il ne suffit que de voir l’alléchante liste actuelle ci-dessous (peut être modifié donc vérifier le site Montreal Fetish Weekend.

Les atelier auront lieu Samedi & Dimanche les 4 et 5 Sept à L’Hotel des Gouverneurs, 1415 St. Hubert, dans la Salle de Bal. Il y a 3 façons pour participer aux ateliers: passe VIP (c’est inlcus), la passe 1 jour à $40 ou la passe weekend à $60.

Offre Exclusive sur LadyEvyl.com

ÉCONOMISEZ & ENCOURAGEZ le CCVA!

Achetez la PASSE ATELIER 2-JOURS au coût de 60$ et économisez 20$ sur le coût d’amission à la porte. 25% de ce montant sera remis au CCVA, le Centre Communautaire pour les Styles de Vie Alternatifs de Montréal.

- Envoyez moi un courriel si vous désirez payer comptant, avant ou sur place le jour même, ou commander via Paypal ci-haut

Visit the website of the

MFW WORKSHOPS IN ENGLISH

CELL POPPING – Mystress Lady Evyl

Come learn about the newest unusual branding technique called Cell Popping. This type of branding consists of tiny, round burns on the skin. Hundreds or thousands of these little marks are combined to create a pointillist design.

EROTIC FIREPLAY BASICS – Pierre Black

What you need to know to safely set you partner on fire quite literally! The how, what, where, and why of erotic heat and fire with a special accent on at-home safety and pleasure dynamics for truly hot play!

EXPLORING CONSEQUENCES – Rigger Jay

Come examine mental and physical games of cause and effect, from simple tasks with intriguing rewards/punishments to kinky Rube Goldberg machines.

WAX PLAY – ALL LEVELS – Contessa Alura

This is a hands-on workshop that will cover various aspects for using hot wax as a form of excitement and eroticism for sensual and intense stimulation. All materials provided.

INTRODUCTION TO SUBMISSION WRESTLING – Mr O.

This introductory level session shows the application of submission wrestling for play. The focus is on techniques that are easy to learn and apply, allowing both players to enjoy their scene safely.

FETISH MODELING – Madria

Be it for pleasure of for profesional purposes, this is an interactive workshop that gives women an insight into sensual posing. Come dresed-up in your favorite fetish wear and lets have fun. Starting with a few tips and a brief photo slide show, ladies are then invited step in front of the camera and test their newfound knowledge. Photos will be emailed following the event.

ALTERNATIVE FITNESS – Maiko Starr

A short introduction to pole dancing with basics spin on the pole and choreography.

MASTER / submissive PROTOCOL – Sir Paul

A workshop set to demistify Master/slave roleplay. How to find the proper play partner and insure a lasting, secure and stable play relationship. How to avoid misunderstandings between players.

SPANKING 101 – Master Kindred

Finding the Pleasures & Pain with spanking and percussion play. This work shop is to provide a different vantage on one of the most basic of play tools, the “hands”. Most everyone has them, but not everyone knows all the deviant & fun ways in which you can use them for play.

ELECTRICAL PLAY – Dunter

Discover the world of electrical play. Learn about the functionality and security aspect of electrical toys.

Demonstration and exploration of the known electrical devices such as: tens unit, violet wand, tazer, zapper , fuck machine and electrical collar.

PLEASURE TRAINING – Ze’ev

Imagine, if you will… having a completely mind bending, time distorting, explosive orgasm, sending echoes through each and every part of your body and your mind multiple times, again and again, making you tingly everywhere and unsure whether it’s been a minute, an hour or even a day since that first sensation which sent you into a whirlpool of being so consumed with pleasure, ecstasy and joy, that everything else just ceased to exist.

MFW ATELIER EN FRANÇAIS

HUMILIATION – Dame Elfya

Qu’elle est son bût réel dans le jeu D/s et BDSM alors que celle-ci reste souvent méconnue. L’humiliation représente l’humilité. J’expliquerai l’aspect évolutif et le renforcement positif pour le joueur tout en ayant pour bût de construire une meilleure confiance et estime de soi

RENCONTRE LATEX – Maitresse Zyra & Malcye Doll

DOLLIFICATION – Steffy The Rubber Doll

DRESSAGE – Karen Chessman

About a year ago I posted a link to a petition to fight a plan put forward by the city to clean up the red light district. The organization set up to try and save the area lost. Now the corner of St-Laurent and Ste-Catherine has always been a bit seedy and it used to be the hot spot for prostitution (they have move east already a while back).

Today, at least for now, it is an colony buzzing with artists, a few remaining XXX movie theaters, cheap restaurants, and Club Sin our local monthly fetish hang out. Actually the word “today” is already the past. I happen to walk by yesterday on my way to Chinatown and the SW corner is a husk of closed businesses. Club Sin’s fate is still up in the air as to whether it can be relocated.

Basically the city wants to tear down a bunch of run down, yet historical and touristy, buildings to make big new office towers. Until the bulldozer is scheduled to destruct the area the city has opened the store fronts to graffiti artists. I had my camera on me so I am decided to make a public record in this post of the work of these street artists.

Wow, this is the dream job. Wish I lived in England and was in a steady relationship.Anybody wants to date me and take me to England?

Look at this job application. its real, not a joke. I got it from the company directly.

Couple Required For Sex Toy Testing Job

Impressive Package and Stimulating Work Environment – Is This The Best Job In The World?

Calling jobseekers, you won’t see this at your local job centre…

As employment become ever more scarce in Britain, one lucky couple will soon be bucking the credit crunch in style as online sex toy retailer, Adult Pleasure Zone is seeking to find its latest employees; an energetic couple to become the World’s leading Sex Toy Testers.

The job requires the couple to test-drive the retailer’s hundreds of existing toys, along with dozens of the most weird and wonderful new toys from around the world, to find only the ones that best hit the (g) spot.  They will also become a feature on British televisions as the foremost foreplay experts, and will also have a column in top women’s website, FemaleFirst.co.uk.

Adult Pleasure Zone spokesperson, Nic Grant said, “We’re looking for a couple who are adventurous and able to chronicle their pleasure with reviews of all of our existing toys, and the latest toys on the market.  In return, we offer a competitive salary in the most desirable in Britain, and hundreds of sex toys every year.”

Couples applying for the Sex Toy Tester job must be over 18 and should submit a test review at www.sex-toys.uk.com/sextoytest/

About Adult Pleasure Zone:
Adult Pleasure Zone is one of the leading online retailers of cheap sex toys and lingerie in the UK. Adult Pleasure Zone sells adult products worldwide on the Internet and through the Adult Pleasure Zone mail order catalogue. Its range of cheap sex toys includes dildos, vibrators, male sex toys, fetish wear and love dolls. The firm’s sexy lingerie range comprises of basques and corsets, babydolls, stockings and suspenders, thongs, traditional lingerie, PVC, body stockings and sexy nightwear.

A little while back I wrote a blog about how I wanted to start offering workshops to small groups about various topics within our alternative lifestyle. Well the timing of my plans and the new ALCC could not have been more perfect!

The Alternative Lifestyle Community Center (Centre Communautaire pour les styles de vie Alternatifs de Montréal) is a free and open space where like minded individuals can meet, share, learn, build and create meaningful relationships, discover, and seek information without fear, judgment, or discrimination.

Last night I attended the grand opening and it was a huge success. I could only come for a short while and got there very early. I expected the place to be quiet. I was wrong…at 5h20pm the place was already packed. Such a great sign for the future! Countess Allura, a fabulous wonderful lady I am happy to call my friend, is the founder of this center. Amazing my dear! I am so proud of you!

And yes of course I will be giving my workshops here. I am very excited. I already have dates on the schedule. So COME SEE ME AT MY WORKSHOPS.

Wednesday, May 12

7-8pm: What is Protocol – Lady Evyl (English)

Wednesday, May 26

7-8pm: C’est quoi le Protocol – Lady Evyl (Français)

Wednesday, June 9

7-8pm: Let’s Have a Ball -CBT Intro – Lady Evyl (English)

Wednesday, June 16

7-8pm: On s’amuse avec les boules – Intro au CBT – Lady Evyl (Français)

More about the Alternative Lifestyle Community:

We provide information, education, counseling, socialization, and support through activities, workshops, seminars, discussion groups, certified psychologists, drop-in hours, and resource materials.

We welcome all people 18 years of age or older from any religion, culture, spirituality, race, age, distinction, minority, majority, orientation, identity, preference, sexuality, that may be curious about, questioning, or living an alternative lifestyle. We also welcome those who are concerned, opposing, or uncertain about alternative lifestyles and encourage you to come to the center to learn more.

We encourage you to drop by and ask questions, familiarize yourself with the various activities being offered at the center, or simply sit on our comfy couch and read some of the literature we have available.

The center is YOUR place to call your own and feel welcome.

I received this email from a vanilla friend. Had to share.
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Our 80th Anniversary as Persons!

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It is important to remember how recent it is that women in Canada were considered “persons” and how hard it was to win the “Vote.”
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November is an important month of “Remembrance” for more than veterans – an especially important anniversary to those of us of the female persuasion in Canada.
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An important history lesson!

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This is the story of women in the United States who were ground-breakers.. These brave women from the early 1900s made all the difference in the lives we live today. Remember, it was not until 1920 that Canadian women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.
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The women were innocent and defenseless, but when, in North America, women picketed in front of the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote, they were jailed.
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And by the end of the first night in jail, those women were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden’s blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of ‘obstructing sidewalk traffic..’
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(Lucy Burns)
They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air.
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(Dora Lewis)
They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.
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Thus unfolded the ‘Night of Terror’ on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson’s White House for the right to vote.
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For weeks, the women’s only water came from an open pail. Their food–all of it colorless slop–was infested with worms.
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(Alice Paul)
When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press.
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All women who have ever voted, have ever owned property, have ever enjoyed equal rights need to remember that women’s rights had to be fought for in Canada as well. Do our daughters and our sisters know the price that was paid to earn rights for women here, in North America?
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2009 is the 80th Anniversary of the Persons Case in Canada, which finally declared women in Canada to be Persons!

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Please, if you are so inclined, pass this on to all the women you know, so that we remember to celebrate the rights we enjoy.
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“Knowledge is Freedom: hide it, and it withers; share it, and it blooms” (P. Hill)
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A new acquaintance made me aware of this story. I don’t even know the people involved or was aware of their art but I was quit irritated with the situation and felt bad for those involved.

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RemyFX, a Montreal special effects masterful artist, was arrested October 29th because of his work. Well not his work but his personal projects. His now removed from the internet website InnerDepravity was apparently the troublesome matter with Canadian Law officials. He was quoted as saying:

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“I recieved visit from police thursday night, ive been arrested for criminal charge because im the owner and creator of the website InnerDepravity.

They took my computer and i pass the night in cell.

My crime is : Corruption of morality.

we live now in a dictaturship society, we cannot use art as we want, we cannot use horror in art !”

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Good news is his other site, RemyFX, an online portfolio, is still up. I am including bellow a small galery of pictures from Inner Depravity. I am keeping them small in case you cannot stomach such images but if you want to see them full size just click on each thumbnail.

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Now there is a help the cause mission statement with a bit of info created by some of his friends and some discussions going on of Facebook…but I cannot find anywhere anything official of his arrestation. From what I reada some say it is partly the CBSA Policy On The Classification Of Obscene Material or the Prostitution laws protect against ‘moral corruption that are invloved. In my opinion neither are involved since a) no prostituion involved b) its not an import product. Not having the exact charge bugs me in pronouncing my opinion.

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But if he truly was arrested purely for ‘offensive to some’ material…it is complete ridiculous. Yes his scenes are gore and horror related…but its make-up. Its a photo shoot. Its art. Everyone involved is of legal age! Who on other thinks they have the right to draw the line on what is offensive? No children or animals were portrayed! And we see these things all the time in movies.

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And who is next to be accused of immoral and offensive behavior. BDSMers and Fetishists? Do I need to fear going to a play party? I find the whole thing beyond disturbing.

If you are in Montreal Nov 07th, 2009 then you must join the evening I am co-hosting with the Loft du Chateau and Excentrik.

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We need to know if you are interested to prepare the evening. The Loft offers for those SCHEDULED IN ADVANCE:
- Victims of branding or cutting: the entrance is free
- Victims of cell popping and piercing: 50% off so $10.
(refund given AFTER body mod)

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A body modification night with cell popping, piercing, cutting and branding! For all the details and info click here.

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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.