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Liberté

Albert Serra’s opulent exploration of the limits of the erotic imagination is realised in this radical and subversive cinematic experience.

Drama 2019 138 mins

Director: Albert Serra

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Overview

France 1774. Expelled from the puritanical court of Louis XVI, a group of aristocratic libertines pursue an ideal of enlightenment through the rejection of conventional morality. At a time when hypocrisy and false virtue reign, they seek a place to indulge their quest for pleasure, inhabiting a libidinous twilight world dedicated to realising unfulfilled desires.

Director

Albert Serra

Featuring

Iliana Zabeth , Laura Poulvet , Baptiste Pinteaux , Helmet Berger and Marc Susini

Genres

Drama

Certificate

Strong real sex, nudity

Country

France

Language

French with English subtitles

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