Fruits is a strange film. It's loosely based on Pauline Réage's novel
Retour à Roissy (1969), a sequel to
Story of O (1954). Sir Stephen (Kinski, being weird as usual) places O in a Shanghai brothel. His reasoning is that by enduring explicit sexual and emotional humiliations, while he enjoys as many pleasures, the sensitive O will be able to prove her devotion to him.
The dedication of the two leads can’t be faulted, but the film is memorable due more to the beauty of the surrounding environment. It's striking and unusual, paintings fill spaces you wouldn't normally expect to see paintings hanging. Quite often it feels as if the camera is exploring the beginnings of a drug-induced dream.
3 house rules out of 5
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