Fetishes

(1996)

★ 5.9 IMDb · 29 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1996

Runtime: 84 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Ник Брумфилд

Cast: Mistress Beatrice, Ник Брумфилд, Mistress Catherine, Mistress Delilah, Mistress Natasha, Mistress Raven, Elissa Wald

Plot

Nick Broomfield and a documentary crew visit Pandora's Box, an up-scale house of bondage on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, where clients pay $175 an hour to be subservient to mistresses. Mistresses talk about their craft; a few clients, usually masked, are interviewed as well. Then, the camera watches sessions organized around fetishes: rubber, wrestling, corporal punishment, masochism, and infantilism. Mistress Raven, the owner of Pandora's Box, explains that pain need not be part of the subservient experience: it is, at its root, a transfer of power. After their session has ended, clients talk about how drained, relaxed, relieved, and at peace they are.