A libertine is a person questioning and challenging most moral principles, such as responsibility or sexual restraints, and will often declare these traits as unnecessary or undesirable or evil. A libertine is especially someone who ignores or even spurns accepted morals and forms of behaviour observed by the larger society. The values and practices of libertines are known collectively as libertinism or libertinage and are described as an extreme form of hedonism or liberalism . Libertines put value on physical pleasures, meaning those experienced through the senses. As a philosophy, libertinism gained new-found adherents in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, particularly in France and Great Britain . Notable among these were John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester , and the Marquis de Sade .
35-491: Infinity Pool may refer to: Infinity Pool (film) , a 2023 sci-fi horror film by Brandon Cronenberg Infinity pool , a reflecting pool or swimming pool without visible boundaries See also [ edit ] Limiters of the Infinity Pool , a 2011 music album Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
70-531: A few Lollards held libertine views such as that adultery and fornication were not sin, or that "whoever died in faith would be saved irrespective of his way of life". During the 18th and 19th centuries, the term became more associated with debauchery. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand wrote that Joseph Bonaparte "sought only life's pleasures and easy access to libertinism" while on the throne of Naples. Les Liaisons dangereuses ( Dangerous Liaisons , 1782), an epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos ,
105-455: A clone of himself he had been led to believe was the detective who initially arrested him. In a moment of clarity and panic, James retrieves the passport he had hidden in order to stay in Li Tolqa and attempts to flee. However, the tourist group abducts him from the bus transporting him to the airport. Gabi reveals that she finds him pathetic, that she never read his book, and that he was targeted by
140-404: A local festival is underway. The couple's chronic marital strife is exacerbated when Gabi, a fan of the only novel James has published, invites them to spend time with her and her husband Alban. The four have dinner and spend the next day driving in the countryside, even though they have been warned that tourists are to remain on the resort grounds at all times. At a beach, as James urinates behind
175-418: A negative review, Michael O'Sullivan from The Washington Post claimed that the movie has an "eye-roll-inducing plot" and that Cronenberg has inherited some of his father's worst excesses: sophomoric, fetishistic violence and gratuitous sexualization. In another negative review from The Hollywood Reporter , David Rooney claimed that the movie lacks substance and has a silly storyline. IndieWire described
210-418: A tree, Gabi unexpectedly grabs him from behind and gives him a handjob , which he enjoys. After a long day of sunbathing and cooking, the tourists drunkenly drive back to their hotel. En route, James accidentally hits a local man, killing him. Gabi insists that they cannot call the police as the country is corrupt and they will not be safe. The next day, James is arrested and told that the penalty for his crime
245-409: Is a 2023 science fiction horror film written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg , and starring Alexander Skarsgård , Mia Goth , and Cleopatra Coleman . The film follows a struggling writer and his wife on vacation who, after an accident, discover the country's dark culture. Cronenberg started developing the project in 2019, with production later being pushed back to 2021. Much of the cast joined
280-454: Is a trenchant description of sexual libertinism. Wayland Young argues: "... the mere analysis of libertinism ... carried out by a novelist with such a prodigious command of his medium ... was enough to condemn it and play a large part in its destruction." Agreeable to Calvin's emphasis on the need for uniformity of discipline in Geneva, Samuel Rutherford (Professor of Divinity in
315-439: Is again confronted by Gabi's group, who order him to kill a leashed duplicate of himself they refer to as "the dog" to complete his transformation into a murdering tourist. He initially refuses, but when the clone attempts to kill him, James beats him to death. Gabi consoles James by exposing her bare breast, covering it with the warm blood of "the dog" and inviting him to simulate breastfeeding . The next day, as they head back to
350-422: Is based to some extent on Boileau 's version of Juvenal 's eighth or fifteenth satire, and is also indebted to Hobbes, Montaigne , Lucretius , and Epicurus , as well as the general libertine tradition. Confusion has arisen in its interpretation as it is ambiguous as to whether the speaker is Rochester himself, or a satirised persona. It criticises the vanities and corruptions of the statesmen and politicians of
385-412: Is death at the hand of his victim's firstborn son. However, the country has a unique system of justice reserved for foreign nationals due to diplomatic agreement, whereby the guilty, for a hefty fee, can be cloned and have their duplicates killed in their place. James, who married into money, pays the fee to escape execution. However, as part of the deal, he must watch the execution of his clone. While Em
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#1732876933010420-523: Is horrified by the entire affair and wants to leave immediately, James is titillated by the spectacle and doesn't share her urgency. He discovers that his passport is missing but encourages Em to return to the United States. James extends his stay by a week and encounters Gabi and Alban again. They introduce him to a small group of Western tourists who all have been convicted of serious crimes and have paid to watch their doubles killed. These people return to
455-540: The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 87% based on 233 reviews, with an average rating of 7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Turbulent waters even for strong swimmers, Infinity Pool provides a visceral all-inclusive retreat of Cronenbergian perversion for those wanting to escape commercial sundries." On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 72 out of 100 based on 46 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave
490-569: The Amadria Park resort in Šibenik , Croatia. After twelve days of shooting, production moved to Budapest , Hungary, where filming was completed. Post-production took place in Toronto , Canada, and was completed during the second half of 2022. Infinity Pool premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Elevation Pictures in Canada on January 27, 2023. The film's European premiere
525-742: The Quintessence of Debauchery , 1684). Other famous titles are Histoire de Dom Bougre, Portier des Chartreux (1741) and Thérèse Philosophe (1748). Precursors to the libertine writers were Théophile de Viau (1590–1626) and Charles de Saint-Evremond (1610–1703), who were inspired by Epicurus and the publication of Petronius . Robert Darnton is a cultural historian who has covered this genre extensively. A three-part essay in The Book Collector by David Foxen explores libertine literature in England, 1660-1745. Critics have been divided as to
560-407: The United States, the other tourists casually chat about upcoming errands, while James is visibly traumatized. Waiting in the airport for his flight, he resolves to remain behind instead. He returns to the closed resort, where he sits alone amidst the downpour of the monsoon . Brandon Cronenberg wrote the original screenplay for Infinity Pool with the intention of directing the film. He developed
595-538: The University of St. Andrews, and Christian minister in 17th-century Scotland) offered a rigorous treatment of "Libertinism" in his polemical work "A Free Disputation Against Pretended Liberty of Conscience" (1649). A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind is a poem by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester which addresses the question of the proper use of reason , and is generally assumed to be a Hobbesian critique of rationalism . The narrator subordinates reason to sense. It
630-771: The court of Charles II. The libertine novel was a primarily 18th-century literary genre of which the roots lay in the European but mainly French libertine tradition. The genre effectively ended with the French Revolution . Themes of libertine novels were anti-clericalism , anti-establishment and eroticism . Authors include Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon ( Les Égarements du cœur et de l'esprit , 1736; Le Sopha, conte moral , 1742), Denis Diderot ( Les bijoux indiscrets , 1748), Marquis de Sade ( L'Histoire de Juliette , 1797–1801), Choderlos de Laclos ( Les Liaisons dangereuses , 1782), and John Wilmot ( Sodom, or
665-497: The film an average grade of "C–" on an A+ to F scale, while those polled by PostTrak gave it a 52% positive score, with 28% saying they would definitely recommend it. Reviewing Infinity Pool following its premiere at Sundance, David Fear of Rolling Stone described the film as being laced with "a rage, an edge and a warped satirical sensibility that feels unique, and uniquely unnerving enough to kill talk of family coattails", praising Cronenberg's screenplay and direction, as well
700-422: The film as shallow, cold and clammy. Mae Abdulbaki of Screen Rant gave the film a two out of five, feeling the story is messy and lacks cohesion. Reuben Baron of Looper noted that the film's attempt at cultural commentary is shallow and that the film gives little reason for viewers to care about its "loathsome characters", although Baron did praise Goth's performance. Libertine The word libertine
735-433: The group, which is abusing him for their own amusement. The accident James and Em had with Gabi and Alban made their plan easier to implement. James runs off into a nearby wilderness, but Gabi shoots him in the leg. After hours of wandering, James collapses at a farm, where a local family takes him in to recuperate. In his drugged state , he experiences another series of hallucinations . Once he has regained his strength, he
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#1732876933010770-424: The lead performances. The film is a New York Times Critic's Pick, with Jeannette Catsoulis writing, "Surreal, sophisticated, and sometimes sickening, Infinity Pool suggests that while the elder Cronenberg might be fixated on the disintegration of our bodies, his son is more concerned with the destruction of our souls." Esther Zuckerman of Vanity Fair commended the cast performances (particularly Goth's), but
805-411: The literary merits of William Hazlitt 's Liber Amoris , a deeply personal account of frustrated love that is quite unlike anything else Hazlitt ever wrote. Wardle suggests that it was compelling but marred by sickly sentimentality, and also proposes that Hazlitt might even have been anticipating some of the experiments in chronology made by later novelists. One or two positive reviews appeared, such as
840-570: The older inhabitants against the increasing number of religious refugees who were fleeing France in even greater numbers". By 1555, Calvinists were firmly in place on the Genevan town council, so the Libertines, led by Perrin, responded with an "attempted coup against the government and called for the massacre of the French. This was the last great political challenge Calvin had to face in Geneva". In England,
875-676: The one in the Globe , 7 June 1823: "The Liber Amoris is unique in the English language; and as, possibly, the first book in its fervour, its vehemency, and its careless exposure of passion and weakness—of sentiments and sensations which the common race of mankind seek most studiously to mystify or conceal—that exhibits a portion of the most distinguishing characteristics of Rousseau, it ought to be generally praised". Dan Cruickshank in his book London's Sinful Secret summarized Hazlitt's infatuation stating: "Decades after her death Batsy (Careless) still haunted
910-471: The project that year and filming took place primarily in Šibenik , Croatia. Infinity Pool premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2023. It was released theatrically in Canada by Elevation Pictures on January 27, 2023. The film received positive reviews from critics. Novelist James Foster and his wife Em spend time at a resort in the fictional seaside country of Li Tolqa, where
945-489: The rating was upheld. After re-edits, it achieved an R rating. Infinity Pool grossed $ 1.1 million from 1,835 theaters on its first day of release. It went on to debut to $ 2.7 million, finishing eighth at the box office and out-grossing the lifetime domestic run of the director's father 's 2022 release, Crimes of the Future ($ 2.4 million). It dropped out of the box office top ten in its second weekend with $ 900,000. On
980-412: The resort annually, commit heinous crimes, and pay to watch their doubles get slaughtered. Over the next several days, they encourage James to transform into a libertine criminal, encouraging him to kill locals, engage in intoxicated orgies (as he uses a local hallucinogen with Gabi, it's unclear how much of the orgy is real), and abuse other resort guests. One night James is tricked into brutalizing
1015-885: The screenings took place at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in San Francisco on the 20th, the Aero Theatre in Los Angeles on the 21st via American Cinematheque , and the Metrograph in New York City on the 23rd. For its United States release, an initial cut received an NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association (MPA). Neon appealed to the Classification and Rating Administration appeals board, but
1050-468: The story from actual experiences he had on unsatisfying vacations and a science fiction story about killing clones he had been writing. By May 2019, an international co-production had been set up between Canada, Hungary, and France. Filming was slated to begin at the end of 2019. By November 2020, filming locations in Croatia and Hungary were selected, but production was pushed back to 2021. In June 2021, it
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1120-490: Was announced that distribution would be handled by Elevation Pictures in Canada and Neon in the United States. In June 2021, Alexander Skarsgård was revealed to be starring in the lead role. By the time filming had started, additional casting announcements included Mia Goth , Thomas Kretschmann , Amanda Brugel , Caroline Boulton, John Ralston , Jeff Ricketts, Jalil Lespert and Roderick Hill. Principal photography took five weeks, beginning on September 6, 2021, at
1155-664: Was held at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival in the Berlinale Special section. The film was released on VOD on February 14, 2023. The uncut version was made available by Neon on March 7, 2023. On May 31, 2023, it was announced that Infinity Pool and Cronenberg's previous film Possessor would receive a double feature in three North American theaters in June, with Cronenberg in attendance. The first for both films to theatrically screen in their uncut form,
1190-464: Was originally coined by John Calvin to negatively describe opponents of his policies in Geneva , Switzerland. The group, led by Ami Perrin , argued against Calvin's "insistence that church discipline should be enforced uniformly against all members of Genevan society". Perrin and his allies were elected to the town council in 1548, and "broadened their support base in Geneva by stirring up resentment among
1225-605: Was overall mixed on the film, asserting that it is "provocative with questionable payoff". Comparing the film to Possessor in a positive Los Angeles Times review, Katie Walsh wrote that Infinity Pool "is larger in scope than its predecessor, the narrative grander, sharper, funnier and more wickedly perverse." Meagan Navarro of Bloody Disgusting also gave the film a positive review, writing, "Cronenberg's sense of style, paired with an unrelenting sense of dread and tension and two utterly captivating, depraved leads ensure these provocative waters are well worth wading into." In
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