Tuesday, July 27, 2021

 'Marquis' (1989) - Henri Xhonneux. 


Plainly gifted film-maker Henri Xhonneux has made an entertainingly bawdy animatronic yarn wherein the unashamedly sinful, Bastille incarcerated Marquis colourfully ruminates upon life's more fleshly pursuits with his remarkably cogent, and uncommonly outspoken reproductive organ! This deliciously deviant and impeccably playful fantasy about the dastardly double-dealing, internecine intrigues, illicit social intercourse and perfectly perfidious peccadilloes of the great and the good are wittily observed and whimsically realised in director Xhonneux's frequently fabulous, literately lewd phantasmagoria. While the ribald, lushly costumed drama is set within the murky, Draconian confines of a misbegotten jail, the joyful film itself is a luminously liberating affair, perhaps even able to uplift more than a viewer's flagging spirits! 











 

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