9 1/2 WEEKS could have used some actual S&M. Instead, like a lot of "erotica" it just dallies with the accouterments of like riding crops and blindfolds in a sappy (though nicely shot and edited) "love story" that is never as intense as it want to pretend it is.
More successful are THE IMAGE in terms of actual S&M acts or Polanski's BITTER MOON in depicting a sadomasochistic relationship with little onscreen kink.
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