![]() Broomfield like's to use classical music throughout probably for some misguided artistic reason or other. There is one part that I remember well, during a phone session the Mistresses were smiling trying hard not to burst out laughing & ending up looking very bored which didn't do them any favours at all. Nick's comments about most of Pandora's Box clients being rich, high powered lawyers, businessmen & doctors really isn't that enlightening is it? Most of what he says isn't but that was a good example of the sort of commentary Broomfield provides. In fact I only watched it last night & I'm struggling to remember anything about it or what was said other than the session footage. In between this session footage there are interviews with both the Mistresses & clients but they are short & apart from one or two exceptions not that informative, I found Nick asking various Dominatrix's the same "what made you want to be a Mistress?" question became tedious & the answers were almost meaningless. There are scenes of whippings, a brief nipple piercing, rubber & breath play, infaltalism, cross dressing, nipple clamps, wrestling, verbal humiliation, a couple of phone sessions & various people crawling around on all fours as I found this footage rather bland & shown in glimpses as the hand held camera jerks around all over the place. I personally found the session footage not to be particularly strong or shocking & rather weak considering what you can find on the internet. But you don't really want to know about that do you? I'm pretty sure most people who are contemplating watching Fetishes are doing so to get a look at some kinky fetishistic sessions. Fetishes then jumps from interviewee to interviewee as Nick & his crew film & ask questions to the various Mistresses & their clients. After the obligatory establishing shot of a busy Manhattan street complete with yellow taxis we go inside Pandora's Box where Mistress Raven the manager greets us & Nick. Once Fetishes starts proper we are treated to various clips form a Betty Page film called Teaserama (1955) & Nick doing an introductory narration that more-or-less repeats exactly what he said in the now not so special intro on the DVD, great extra guys. I watched Fetishes on the British special edition DVD which has an intro by co-editor, writer, co-producer & director Nick Broomfield which informs us that he spent two months (not two weeks as the IMDb plot summary would have you believe) filming there & that he didn't know much about S/M before he started. Fetishes is an hour & twenty five minute documentary set in an S/M dungeon establishment called Pandora's Box located in Manhattan, New York focusing on it's Mistresses & clients who pay upwards of a $1,000 for a session.
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