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Here are some details of the process used to create this high quality

realease. The video has been spatially and temporally processed to remove

scratchs and glitches present in the original source then coded from the

YUV 4:2:0 video stream using the latest build of x264. The source material

presents very challeging scenes including an opening sequence with a vanishing

point fast movement, throughall high dynamic range lighting (intense

highlights and deep shadows) as well as several scenes shot through a

softning lenses, which render the details very hard to capture and

preserve. The sound has been processed in order to keep a distortion free envelop

in particular on the high pitch passages of the female singer. This will

give you a theatrical like experience (owners of multi speaker systems

are recomended to use only 2 speakers).

The following options were made in order to keep the quality

of the original film:





Video Stream:

* MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) High Profile (x264 core:47 svn-531)

* Bitrate: 2000 Kbps (2pass VBR)

* Resolution: 688x480 @ 25fps  Anamorphic (1376x480 Full resolution)

* Custom JVT standard compliant HVS optimised quantisation matrix





Audio stream:

* MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coder (MPEG4-AAC) with Main Profile

* Bitrate: 180 Kbps Variable Bit Rate coding

* Bandwidth: 24000 Hz per channel

* Signal Processing: Temporal Noise Shaping,

                     Mid/Side joint stereo matrix,

                     Volume Normalisation



Container:

* MatRoska

        - 1 video stream

        - 2 audio streams

        - Original DVD chapter information

        - File Size: 1325787317 bytes

        - RIPEMD160: 702ae53228800ac31411a1154afad4a4a61c9658







This encoding was done with state of the art video technology. If you

are not able to play this film you should obtain the following software:

* MatRoska container support: http://packs.matroska.org/latest/Matroska_Pack_Full.exe

* H.264 codec: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/x264_Video_Codec.htm

alternatively you can try K's codec pack:

* http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm



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minutes you are requested to erease all the downloaded files. Should you

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 Description:



In a strange, secluded chateau, a woman know only as O (Corinne Clery)

is introduced to sadomasochism by her lover: he whips her, chains her,

and watches her make love to and beat up others. In the process of

"proving her love" for him, she gives up everything- even agreeing to be

branded -- to provide him with pleasure. This adaptation of Pauline

Reage's best-selling erotic novel was directed by Just Jaecklin.



IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073115/

User Rating: 5.3/10 (764 Votes)











About the source DVD:



Year: 1975 (film), 2002 (DVD-PAL)

Format: 16:9

Audio: Dolbi Digital Stereo 2.0, Original Version French Soundtrack

Runtime: 1h 38m

Rating: NC-17 (MPAA)



The Story of O is presented in a Widescreen transfer (approx 2.35:1) and

the result is nothing short of a revelation. When one considers the age

and obvious budgetary limitations of this flick, it turns out to be

nothing short of a minor miracle that the film should look this good on

DVD. Grain is practically non-existent and there is barely even a hint

of print damage to be found. Colors are fairly sharp and vibrant,

unfortunately The Story of O suffers from that dreaded "soft focus"

look, which I'm sure was an artistic choice made by the filmmaker and is

in no way a representation of a troubled transfer. Overall, the film

looks simply fantastic.



A Dolby Digital 2.0 stream on the disc contains the original soundtrack

in mono in the best fidelity available to date.









The Movie:



A beautiful nude brunette, leather cuffs around her wrists, is secured

in an elaborately furnished chamber, her arms suspended over her head

and arching her torso and straining her upper arms. Another woman, with

blonde hair, is setting to her with a thin flexible bamboo cane. The

fury on the blonde's face and the writhing and screaming of the brunette

indicate the severity of the blows and snaps on the pale flesh of the

"victim's" body.



If the idea of this scenario doesn't turn you on, then you will have no

interest in The Story of O.



O's story began as a novel published in France in 1954. Histoire d'O

(technically Story of O) eventually came out from Maurice Girodias's

Olympia Press, which had also birthed the debut of The Ginger Man and

Lolita. Credited to the pseudonymous Pauline Rée, the book tells the

story of a woman named O who is unexpectedly sent to a place called The

Chateau in the Parisian suburb of Roissy by her lover RenéThere she is

trained in the arts of submission, whipped, chained in dungeons, and

assailed by numerous men. In the book, she is violated by a succession

of larger anal dildos to prepare her for nether invasions for the men

who crave her. The training over, she is released to Reného, in an odd

turn of events, gives her away to an older perv named Sir Stephen, who

brands her and who gives her a labial ring. Taken to a party where she

is naked but for an owl's mask and led about by a chain attached to the

ring, O finds a strange peace in her mindless submission to Sir Stephen.



Eventually published in America by Grove Press, the book was something

of an underground hit, and inspired the similar three-part Sleeping

Beauty fantasies of Anne Rice, also originally published under a

pseudonym. There was eventually a much harsher "sequel" called Return to

the Chateau, which was really a deleted, variant last chapter from the

original with some additional material that recounted how the author

came to write the book (as a lure to ensnare a married lover whom she

feared was about to stray), and then as a separate volume a previously

published interview with Rée was reprinted as a book. The rest was

silence. Meanwhile, Histoire d'O has never gone out of print, and has

been translated into at least 24 languages. It is certainly one of the

most internationally popular French books ever published, and may be the

first popular erotic novel written by a woman.



If Pauline Rée was a woman, that is. Speculation as to the identity of

the author raged for years, and included such candidates as Andréalraux,

Raymond Queneau, and even Paris Review publisher George Plimpton. The

only female suspect of note was Catherine Robbe-Grillet, who was known

to be interested in similar games with her husband Alain Robbe-Grillet,

and who herself wrote a couple of S&M novels under the name Jean de

Berg. But most secrets are born to be sussed out. British journalist

John de St. Jorre, while doing some research for his 1994 book Venus

Bound, a history of the Olympia Press, learned that the actual author

was one Dominique Aury, a translator and editor who later died in May

1998, and whose life story is detailed in a London Times obit. Whether

she was personally interested in the games played in her books is at

present unknown.



The Story of O has been adapted a surprising number of times. Kenneth

Anger helmed an unfinished black and white movie version for a private

client in Paris in 1961, apparently drawing for his visual scheme on the

same photo spread from a 1936 issue of the magazine Paris that

influenced Aury years earlier. There was a 10-hour movie version made in

Brazil in 1995, and a very loose adaptation of the sequel, called Fruits

of Passion, made with Klaus Kinski in 1981. The latest version is a

low-budget indie film called The Story of O: Untold Pleasures, directed

by Phil Leirness in 2001 and making its debut at the third annual New

York S&M Film Festival. The story is also popular in other media. There

is a multi-part comic strip drawn by Guido Crepax which has its fans,

and S&M photographer and editor Doris Kloster has released a version of

the book illustrated with her photographs.



But the best-known cinematic version of the story is Just Jaeckin's

adaptation from 1974 (a film that was for a long time banned in

Britain). Jaeckin was a fashion photographer turned director who had

made an international name for himself by starting the Emmanuelle

series, back in the day when softcore adult movies had some currency in

mainstream cinemas.



Jaeckin's adaptation is mostly faithful to the source novel, and

benefits from taste in dér, costuming, music, and photography, a feeling

of discretion toward the material (which might frustrate hardcore

buffs), an effective ad campaign that was based on a two-tone image of a

woman kneeling (which seemed to promise a lot), and the casting of

Corinne Clery in the lead.



Knowing and innocent at the same time, Clery is excellent in a difficult

and easily risible role. One just can't say enough about how good she is

in the part, and she is one of the most beautiful actresses the cinema

couldn't figure out what to do with. Her best moment comes when a young

lover smitten with her is lured to Sir Stephen's only to find her in

bondage and bearing the whip marks of a recent session, driving him from

the house shattered. Clery's panting expression, mixing agony and

defiance, with her sweaty locks framing her face, is unique. Clery's

real name is Corinna Piccolo, and she had a modest cinematic career

after this film.



Filling out the cast is an astonishingly young and skinny Udo Kier as

Renéand the late Anthony Steel as Sir Stephen. Laure Moutoussamy plays

Norah, Sir Stephen's black maid, but nothing is done with her

tantalizing presence.



The appeal of O is based on one's appetite for seeing women whipped and

humiliated (though I would argue that male viewers can just as easily

identify with O). The film came out just before it was impossible to

mount as elaborate a recreation of the film's themes. After that, there

was the onset of feminist studies in colleges and the battles over

political "correctness," from which O is and always was a renegade. Not

until there are departments of S&M Studies down the hall from "queer"

studies in our schools will films such as O be taken seriously, but

until then it can be welcomed as a truly hot video in the privacy of

one's own home.















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