Madame Claude 2

The cultural pendulum of Western society has swung dramatically over the past half-century. Where the 1970s were characterised by a marked, almost defiant relaxation of sexual mores—a time when the boundaries of propriety were blurred in the name of liberation—the intervening decades have seen a regression toward a more censorious, risk-averse puritanism. This shift makes films from that bygone era fascinating artef…