…The Duke of Burgundy is a must see for those who like to dine off the menu, but it’s also a gorgeous curio that’s fun even for those who aren’t looking for kink….

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 12, 2024

Anchored by fantastic performances from its focal women, Chiara D’Anna and Sidse Babett Knudsen, The Duke of Burgundy was one of my more effortless choices...

| Aug 1, 2023

The Duke of Burgundy is a sympathetic look at the negotiations and compromises that often need to occur in relationships after they suddenly and unexpectedly morph into something that threatens to flutter away.

| Jul 26, 2023

This low budget feature has enough sumptuous art direction and clever cinematic touches to make it a solid movie of the art house variety. The camera is beautifully positioned in every shot.

| May 19, 2022

The Duke of Burgundy unravels sex itself, with all its weird and messy and private neuroses, into something unexpected and strange and shockingly honest - it makes sex into love again

| Jan 10, 2022

What I really appreciated about the film was that it was most definitely not made for the male gaze, which was my no. 1 fear upon hearing it was yet another sexy lesbian film directed by a man.

| Aug 12, 2021

A mesmerising portrayal of human relationships.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 27, 2021

Strickland confirms himself as one of the leading visual stylists. The Duke of Burgundy lasts a twee bit long for my taste. I would've been perfectly content with the butterfly/moth montage sequence 2/3rd way in as the end.

| Feb 14, 2021

A small story of extremes, The Duke of Burgundy is dreamy and moving, visually and sonically vivid, and completely unlike anything you're going to see elsewhere.

| Original Score: A | Jul 6, 2020

It's about selfishness and selflessness, power and submission and how these dynamics are endlessly reversed. And it's dressed up in so much cinematic finery, both eerie and lush, that it has a sensorial pleasure unlike any other movie before it.

| May 30, 2020

It establishes a very interesting point of view that is rarely established in a history of domination and submission, where the submissive is the one who really commands, and the dominant is the one that obeys. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 27, 2019

Strickland is more interested in sex as power, and by taking men completely out of the equation, he delivers something almost unheard of in modern cinema.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 7, 2019

The Duke of Burgundy has an unmistakable scent, look, and feel that's utterly unique and unclassifiable -- a rare cinematic breed of uncommon origin.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 18, 2019

Strickland penetrates much deeper into the psyches of his characters in The Duke of Burgundy, finding the erotic in the banal, the banal in the erotic, and infinity and insanity between a lover's knees.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 17, 2019

He presents a unique, fairy tale-like setting, one that feels timeless, and presents something relatable through it.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 7, 2019

There's a state beyond mere overindulgence, and Strickland's found it.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 25, 2019

Like the nocturnal reveries of Jean Cocteau, The Duke of Burgundy feels out of time, embalmed like a dream; perhaps it's a self-contained prism though which we detect our own part in the games of love.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2019

THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY is like a lucid dream that is simultaneously clear and complex.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 8, 2018

Writer and director Peter Strickland certainly had a vision for The Duke of Burgundy, his keen eye towards building tension and holding suspense is successfully put to use here.

| Nov 9, 2018

As psychologically and emotionally overwhelming as it is eccentric. We come to understand that the repetition is what the characters crave, the solidification and endless proof of their desire and need for one another.

| Aug 30, 2018