IMDb
6.1 /10
876 votes

Documentary · 1996 · 1h 24min
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.
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IMDb
6.1 /10
876 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
43 /100
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TMDB
5.7 /10
27 votes
Letterboxd
6.8 /10
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Weighted average
5.7/10