

This ambitious 10-part series fleshes out Pauline Reage’s erotic BDSM classic even more than the 1975 version with Corrine Clery. With an extra 8 hours of footage, there is lots of bondage and torture, and while no ones tops the luminescent Clery in my book, Claudia Cepeda is quite beautiful as O in this version. As in the book, it’s a consensual scene. She is tied standing with her arms off to the sides as a 2-headed branding iron is heated up over hot coals. Then with one swift poke, it is seared into both her bare buttocks simultaneously, leaving her master’s mark on both cheeks. This series is sadly not available on DVD in the US; the video clip came off my old VHS tape.


