The music played during the presentation scene of Zohra Ben Brahim is a fragment of the "Épigraphes antiques," a piano (four hands) piece reworking of the "Chansons de Bilitis" (1900/1901), that Claude Debussy wrote for a chamber ensemble to accompany the recitation of the Zohra-inspired poems by Pierre Louÿs in 1900/1901. These pieces were composed, in any case, a few years after the scene depicted, but the connection is totally adequate.
The film begins with an on-screen dictionary definition of the word curiosa --- "Curiosa: Erotic object, book or photograph."
EPILOGUE: "Loosely based on the photographs and letters of Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier."
EPILOGUE: "Loosely based on the photographs and letters of Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier."
Curiosa (2019) is a 2019 French biographical film loosely based on the relationship between 19th-century French authors Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier (Marie de Hérédia). Louÿs was an erotomaniac who took erotic or pornographic photographs of his mistresses. Such erotic or even pornographic representations are referred to as 'curiosa,' hence the name of the movie.
The light shown at the top of the Eiffel Tower in the movie was put there in 1985, 90 years after the setting of the story.