Story of the Eye

Name: Story of the Eye
Genre: Adult
Released: September 22, 2004
Duration: 81 min
Rating: 46

2004

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ARM/Cinema 25 Pictures Inc. | Release Date: September 22, 2004

Summary: Inspired by Georges Bataille's 1929 novella, this highly sexual film explores the idea of spectatorship.

Director: Andrew Repasky McElhinney

Genre(s): Adult

Runtime: 81 min

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Phil Hall

The results are either darkly comic and tragic, depending on the viewer's mindframe. But McElhinney's route to these results, as with the Bertolucci, is nothing short of stunning. Read full review

Dave Kehr

It is a strange, beautiful, disturbing and at times literally painful work, an original and distinctive expression by a gifted young Philadelphia-based filmmaker who here confirms the talent he displayed in his 2001 film, "A Chronicle of Corpses." Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Evaluating this project in conventional feature terms is a lost cause; relevant contexts are purely avant-garde and pornographic. Suffice it to say that helmer's careful attention to framing camera, music and content signal primary allegiance to Art rather than Smut. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

The less time you've devoted to thinking about the nature and uses of the erotic imagination, the more challenging this will seem. Read full review

David Sterritt

Bataille was a serious philosopher as well as a sensation-seeking writer, but you'd never guess his provocative ideas from this updated version. Read full review

Ed Halter

This skin-deep flick is merely art-school sophomoric, unwittingly cornball, and counterrevolutionary. Read full review

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AliciaM.

May 16, 2006

Terrible. I hate using the word "pretentious", but unfortunately I must here.

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