Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

A curious film, consisting of four erotic set-pieces. In the first, which takes place at the present time (in the 1970s, that is), a slightly annoying young man (Fabrice Luchini) tells us his young cousin will do whatever he tells her to do. They go down to the seaside, where he tells her to take off her swimsuit under her transparent dress, and to perform oral sex on him until he floods with the high tide. She does so, and thus she supposedly learns about the connection between sex and natural phenomena like the tides. Surely this is either a pretentious bit of fake sex philosophy or a con by the young man, or both/ The girl (Lise Danvers) is very pretty, with freckles, dark blue eyes, and a beautiful mouth, which Borowczyck shows in close up. These close-ups of her face and mouth are the most erotic part of the entire movie. The second tale is perhaps Victorian, involving another pretty girl (Charlotte Alexandre) who lingers after mass in the church, fondling phallic symbols like candlesticks and organ pipes and so on, while a divine voice speaks to her. In trouble for being late and locked into her bedroom at home, she fools around with various old items, a doll, a book of 18th-century pornography, a cucumber, and she undresses and brings herself to orgasm. Later she climbs out her window and wanders off across a field to the edge of a forest where a tramp accosts her. In the third, a Hungarian countess (Paloma Picasso) rounds up women from villages and brings them to serve her, aided by her page Istvan. The young women all take long showers and spend a lot of time naked, then they're given a special drink and permission to touch the countess's pearl dress and then tear it off, and then they tear each other apart, apparently, for the vampire-like countess bathes in blood and then goes to bed with the page, who is actually a beautiful woman (Pascale Christophe). In the morning soldiers arrest the countess and the page kisses the officer. The fourth tale shows a threesome consisting of the pope Alexander Borgia and his daughter Lucrezia (Florence Bellamy) and son Cesare. It's predictable, and not much helped by intercutting scenes of Savanarola scolding the church and then dying in flames at the stake. Much of the movie is filmed prettily, with excellent scenery and costumes and very attractive women often wearing very few clothes, a good deal of sexual activity and nudity. It's interesting to note the women's 1970s hair-styles and tan-lines in the historical parts, and curious also to note the element of excess and cruelty rather arbitrarily conjoined with sexuality. Direct but dated.

Interesting exploration on erotism, that tell four tales of 'immoralities', casually plenties of sex. However, it is interesting the focus on the corruption of governors and religious people. And visually is very well-done. I think that it has no dialogue at all. Interesting. How it could be better? Well, there are a lot of naked women, but i think that some women of a potential public would be interested in more naked men. Who knows? 7/10

This extraordinary film has been sadly misunderstood by many for a simple reason: it is an erotic film that doesn't intend to turn you on. Rather, it is a display of sexual transgression throughout the ages told in reverse order. Each of the four chapters of Immoral Tales takes place further back in history, with the acts committed getting increasingly transgressive. The first is modern, containing semi-consensual sex between a cruel boy and his cousin. The second features religious-fixated masturbation and rape, the third lesbianism and murder, the fourth is an incestuous story of the Pope containing torture and murder, along with threesome sex. The final scene of the film is the baptism of the child of the Pope and his daughter: the androgynous baby is bathed in a radiant light as it stares into the camera, reminding us that the felonies of the fathers lead through the ages to bring about our sexual misdemeanors. Although Im. Tales is quite explicit (but still softcore, Borowczyk only did a little hardcore work) and may be arousing, but is hardly a skin flick. The compositions are too painterly (Borowczyk was a successful painter and animator before turning to film), the action too slow and morally ambiguous to get too worked up over without intellectual involvement. Borowczyk is my favorite European erotic filmmaker, and equal to Radley Metzger from a global standpoint. Contes Immoraux (Im. Tales) and Le Bete (the Beast) are his most accessible films, and a great starting point. My personal favorite is his version of Dr. Jekyll, which goes by several titles. Watch this film if you want to think about sex and your relation to the subject, not if you are just looking for a good item for foreplay.

Immoral Tales consists of four stories, each of feminine eroticism through the ages. They work back through time, beginning with a contemporary surrealist story of a 20-year-old man initiating his cousin in a sex act on the beach, timing his ecstasy to the ebb and flow of the waves. In the second story, Charlotte Alexandra stars as a girl whose dedication to God reveals itself as a burning lust when she is unjustly banished to her room for three days. The Countess Bathory episode – starring Paloma Picasso – is largely the study of liquids on flesh, while the final story follows a visit by Lucrezia Borgia to see her father Pope Alexander VI and brother Cardinal Cesare Borgia, and details the bawdiness that follows. The second tale is by the far the most erotic. Elsewhere the film is a little slow – but well worth seeing.