The read
Audiences rate it 18 points higher than critics do. It runs a compact 1h 24m.
Synopsis
Nick Broomfield and a documentary crew visit Pandora's Box, an up-scale house of bondage on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, where clients pay $175 an hour to be subservient to mistresses. Mistresses talk about their craft; a few clients, usually masked, are interviewed as well. Then, the camera watches sessions organized around fetishes: rubber, wrestling, corporal punishment, masochism, and infantilism. Mistress Raven, the owner of Pandora's Box, explains that pain need not be part of the subservient experience: it is, at its root, a transfer of power. After their session has ended, clients talk about how drained, relaxed, relieved, and at peace they are.
Ratings
Audiences rate it 18 points higher than critics do.
29 audience votes
Key crew
- Nick BroomfieldDirector
- Jamie MuhoberacOriginal Music Composer
- Nick BroomfieldWriter
Cast
- Mistress BeatriceCast
- Nick BroomfieldHimself
- Mistress CatherineCast
- Mistress DelilahCast
- Mistress NatashaCast
- Mistress RavenCast
- Elissa WaldCast