Private Collections 1979

Overview

Private Collections is a drama and romance film released on June 27, 1979 in France with a runtime of one hour and forty-three minutes. The film was directed by Walerian Borowczyk, Just Jaeckin, and Shuji Terayama, and features a cast that includes Roland Blanche, Laura Gemser, Catherine Gandois, and Marpessa Djian. The film is composed of three stories. In the first story, a solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he is found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant, leading him to decide to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. In the second story, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers in bits, taking a journey into dreams, sexual awakening, and an Oedipal fantasy. In the third story, a wealthy man in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night who is also a cabaret performer and takes him to her room, where he fears he is about to be something not fully specified in the provided text.