The Marquis De Sade’s Justine

Jess Franco, 1969, 90mins

The Marquis de Sades name gave the world the word sadism: the love of inflicting pain while deriving sexual pleasure from the act. The publication of Justine led to de Sade being imprisoned for the last 13 years of his life after Napoleon Bonaparte described it as the “most abominable book ever engendered by the most depraved imagination…