A young man (Gerard Depardieu) falls for the mysterious dominatrix (Bulle Ogier). As it develops their relationship begins to mirror the power games of the bordello and they become unable to separate it from the perversions of the chamber below.
Italian maestro Bernardo Bertolucci was just 22 years old when he directed this coming-of-age drama set in Parma. Loosely based on Stendhal's novel 'The...