José Bénazéraf1961-1970DramaEroticaFrance
José Bénazéraf – Le désirable et le sublime (1969)
A couple has found peace in a strange manor by the sea but, on a hot evening, a visitor comes, troubling their solitude. However, three is not actually a crowd and they start start talking, exchanging points of view about philosophy, sociology and politics, eroticism as well.
Le.desirable.et.le.sublime.1969.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1h 20mn
Size: 1.34 GiB
DXVA: Compatible
Minimum settings: Met
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 684x426 ~> 684x479
Aspect ratio: 1.427
Frame rate: 23.976 fps
Bit rate: 2 144 kb/s
Audio
French 2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s
https://nitro.download/view/786805C1343BE63/Le.desirable.et.le.sublime.1969.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv
Language(s):French
Subtitles:none
I have seen this rare Bénazéraf many years ago on french satellite…
xrt – THX 4 eng subs !!!
…made some quick’n’dirty automated eng subs for such:
https://pst.innomi.net/paste/xt8byf3rexuppr69gbvoesyq
Not being (or wanting to be) that much of a narratively coherent film, it’s not that it would really matter much in the first place, heh…
And I’ll have to thank you once again for sharing this oddity (even by Bénazéraf’s usual standards), and helping me fill some cinematic gaps. lor_’s review at imdb is pretty much spot on, hence, knowing what to expect more or less, i wasn’t disappointed. At it’s worst moments, it reminded me of Pierre Clémenti, and at it’s best, towards the end, Alain Robbe-Grillet or such…In it’s own (very) deranged manner, it somehow captures quite nicely the post May-’68 angst and/or malaise – a nice cultural artifact of sorts. Somehow i’ve always ‘connected’ more easily with the earlier soft erotica from directors like Bénazéraf or Pécas than the ones say from Jean Rollin or Jess Franco, not quite sure why. Kinda of a pity (well…comparatively speaking) that Bénazéraf remains almost entirely forgotten, one would expect that at least Frustration (1971) would have gone through restoration / had a blu-ray release by now…
Deeply thank you for finding this one!!!