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Immoral Tales (1974)

Directed by Walerian Borowczyk · Cinematography by Bernard Daillencourt, Guy Durban, Noël Véry, Michel Zolat

125 min49 frames

DramaRomance

Four Erotic tales that take us back through the centuries.

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What is Immoral Tales about?

Four erotic tales from in various historical eras. The first, 'The Tide', is set in the present day, and concerns a student and his young female cousin stranded on the beach by the tide, secluded from prying eyes. 'Therese Philosophe' is set in the nineteenth century, and concerns a girl being locked in her bedroom, where she contemplates the erotic potential of the objects contained within it. 'Erzsebet Bathory' is a portrait of the sixteenth-century countess who allegedly bathed in the blood of virgins, while 'Lucrezia Borgia' concerns an incestuous fifteenth-century orgy involving Lucrezia, her brother, and her father the Pope.

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Sampled across 49 frames, the coverage of Immoral Tales leans on close-ups (47% of the sample) and medium shots (20%). Cinematographer Bernard Daillencourt keeps 67% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Focus stays shallow in 61% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Immoral Tales (1974) are #353331, #d5d3ca, #53524c, #adaea9, #d2c6b1, #ab9a89 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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