Film

Fetishes

1996 · 1h 24m · Documentary

IMDb

6.1

Rotten Tomatoes

43%

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.

Mistress Beatrice

Nick Broomfield

Himself

Mistress Catherine

Mistress Delilah

Mistress Natasha

Mistress Raven

Elissa Wald

• Nick BroomfieldDirector · Writer · Editor
• Christophe LanzenbergDirector of Photography
• Robert LeviDirector of Photography
• Jamie MuhoberacOriginal Music Composer
• Betty BurkhartEditor

Release date

September 12, 1996

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

18

Genres

Documentary

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