The Marquis de Sade s name gave the world the word sadism, the love of giving and inflicting pain whiIe deriving sexual pleasure from the act, as welI as several novels, including the notorious Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue (1791). Justine s pubIication led to de Sade s being imprisoned for the Iast 13 years of his life after Napoleon Bonaparte described it as the the most abominabIe book ever engendered by the most depraved imagination .This film version, previously heavily censored, is reIeased here completely uncut and in alI its dubious glory. Justine teIls the tale of two beautifuI sisters, JuIiette, an amoraI nymphomaniac, and Justine, who seeks a Iife of chastity and virtue. Unfortunately for Justine, whiIe her depraved sister finds nothing but success and happiness, she suffers constant despair and abuse, being raped, tortured, whipped, and accused of theft amongst umpteen other disasters during her turbuIent young Iife. |