"La Vénus à la fourrure" is based on the double opposition between reality and drama. Mathieu Amalric's performance in this film is very dazzling. He actually plays three roles for one person, including a female. And he distinguished these three characters very clearly, and "switched" smoothly
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"La Vénus à la fourrure" started from a disappointed drama director and reluctantly accepted it, step by step, was attracted by the auditioning actress, the two tried on the stage, and then the content of the script and the emotional entanglement of the real actors changed, and finally There is no way to distinguish between true and false dreams, multi-level and multi-angle, Polanski is refreshing both in terms of form and content.
A closed theater, two actors, so few disposable elements, but incorporated the director's unlimited creativity and inspiration. The film also contains a huge amount of content, humor, ridicule, from masochism to the transformation of gender and power between men and women, from the alternation of roles to the discussion of artistic creation. The director arranged almost all possibilities in the limited shooting space. Clever form, rich content, fascinating plot, and the kind of humor that is ubiquitously displayed through dialogue. The content of the story provides the possibility for the performance of the drama in the play. Polanski interweaves everything true and false into the plot trend and the performance of the actors. The perfect integration of the fiction and reality makes the film surpass the simple form of the drama in the play
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