The Balcony [Blu-ray]

This 1963 film from director Joseph Strick was adapted from the play of the same name by Jean Genet. The scene is a European brothel managed by Shelley Winters. Within the establishment's walls, customers can live out their fantasies: One man who would like to be a Bishop defiles a crucifix, another who wants to be a Judge flogs an under-dressed young "penitent", a third poses as a General, "riding" a prostitute dressed as a horse. Meanwhile, a revolution rages outside, and the country's ge...