The Duke of Burgundy's reviews
Media reviews
The Telegraph
Strickland has made something uniquely sexy and strange, built on two tremendous central performances and a bone-deep understanding of cinema?s magic and mechanisms.
Empire
Of course, this is a film you have to meet half-way. If you?re willing to enter its world, it?s an immensely rewarding, amusing, wise, melancholy and involving experience.
Indiewire
Strickland generates a discomfiting quality that keeps the mystery of his world in play. Above all else, he taps into the intangible elements of sexual attraction by bathing them in ambiguities.
New York Times
In the end there is nothing especially campy about 'The Duke of Burgundy', which neither mocks its heroines nor the breathless, naughty screen tradition to which they belong. It?s a love story, and also a perversely sincere (and sincerely perverse) labor of love.