Plot

In December 1992, a sordid news story will make people talk about Carole Trédille. Indeed, the sadomasochistic film directed by Michel Ricaud and with the premonitory title "The Fallen Star" will put an end to her career. The opening scene shows us Tenessy, alias Carole Trédille, walking blindfolded with a long white dress and heading into a disused and gloomy pavilion where she finds her two hooded torturers. It is a real outlaw movie where the poor young girl will be tortured to death and will suffer the worst humiliations. She screams at every scene of torture like whipping, candle wax spilling on her chest, vaginal fist penetration. Then, her executioners pinch her chest with several clothespins, make her sit on a table with lots of thumbtacks. Carole Trédille screams, cries, has her head elsewhere and seems drugged. This film of unheard-of rare violence was intended for the Dutch market where the legislation on sadomasochism is less strict than in France. The problem was that the film was produced and shot in France, so it immediately fell under French law. The police seized the tape from the director and searched his home. Carole Trédille undergoes many unbearable abuses and we see her crying, humiliating, screaming. She had been paid 10,000 francs for an afternoon of filming in a disused pavilion. Michel Ricaud had been heard by the police. Carole Trédille too and had not filed a complaint. Since then, she has put an end to this too short and sulfurous career.—Nuno Fonseca