This is little more than a celluloid refuting of the earlier rom-com Butterflies Are Free as in this entry they are anything but. In a nutshell each morning Evelyn pedals her bicycle to the home - a large house on château scale - of her employer Cynthia where, it seems, she is totally incapable of performing any domestic chore - and these range from scrubbing the floor to hand-washing Cynthia's knickers - to her employer's satisfaction and must therefore be punished. In addition to being accomplished lepidopterists - the Duke of Burgundy is, of course, a species of butterfly as viable as a Camberwell Beauty - the women are, as is soon revealed, lesbian lovers, constantly repeating a ritual that is - as a subsequent revelation informs - scripted by the submissive Evelyn and conveyed to the faux-dominant Cynthia via a series of notes. Apparently the actress playing Cynthia, Sidse Babett Knudsen is well known to television audiences for her roles in a series of features emanating in her native Denmark so no surprise that she should now turn her hand to a touch of Danish Blue.
Review of The Duke of Burgundy
