His delirious improvisations and raw, punkish spontaneity turn the basics of popular cinema, sex and violence, into a whirl of sensations, a seductive and bewitching spectacle that could only be the work of one man.įranco’s taste for the sexy and horrific, his lifelong obsession with the Marquis De Sade and his roving hand-held camera style birthed a whole new strain of erotic cinema. Where once he was castigated for slapdash haste, many fans today not only accept but even revel in the rough edges of his work.
The director of more than 180 films, at his most prolific he reached a supercharged frenzy that yielded as many as twelve films per year, making him one of the most prolific filmmakers of all time.įranco was the winner of a Lifetime Achievement prize at the 2009 Spanish Goya Film Awards, but his appeal does not depend upon mainstream respect instead fans around the world have embraced his cinema, first on video and then more and more frequently on DVD and Blu-Ray.
In the world of Jess Franco freedom was the key, and he pushed at the boundaries of taste and censorship over and over again, throughout an astonishingly varied career spanning sixty years. His sexually charged, fearlessly personal style of filmmaking has never been in vogue with mainstream critics, but for lovers of the strange and sado-erotic he is a magician, spinning his unique and disturbing dream worlds from the cheapest of budgets. Jesús ‘Jess’ Franco is an iconic figure in world cinema. Standard Edition – with colour cover from Female VampireĬurrently out of print, but we are planning a full colour reprint of the standard edition for Autumn 2019. The single contains three tracks from La Comtesse Perverse and Le Journal Intime dune Nymphomane, all by Roger Davy.
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