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Psychopathia Sexualis (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 13
Fresh: 3
Rotten:10
Average Rating: 4.5/10
Theatrical Release:Jun 8, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Employing a complex multi-narrative structure, Psychopathia Sexualis dramatizes case histories of turn-of-the-century sexual deviance, drawn from the pages of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's notorious... Employing a complex multi-narrative structure, Psychopathia Sexualis dramatizes case histories of turn-of-the-century sexual deviance, drawn from the pages of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's notorious medical text. Among the cases are a sexually repressed man who discovers an unhealthy appetite for blood; a homosexual man who submits himself to a doctor who promises to 'cure' his condition; and a masochist who hires a pair of corseted prostitutes to enact a most peculiar performance. In the final chapter, a woman who has spent her life suppressing her lesbian desires is hired to tutor a sexually curious young woman. These stories are bound together by the thread of an ambitious doctor who not only studies the patients, but uses them as pawns and playthings. --© Kino International [More]
Starring: Jane Bass, Bryan Davis, Veronika Duerr, Sandra L. Hughes
Starring: Jane Bass, Bryan Davis, Veronika Duerr, Sandra L. Hughes, Ted Manson
Director: Bret Wood
Director: Bret Wood
Studio: Kino International
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Reviews for Psychopathia Sexualis
Lugubrious to the extreme of unintended comedy, the movie suggests a regional dinner theater production of a late- ' 80s Peter Greenaway film.
Psychopathia Sexualis seems both plodding and snickering in its almost comically tepid rendering of masochism, homosexuality,
Psychopathia Sexualis isn't sexy enough to be soft porn. Neither will it cause an excess of cerebral stimulation.
What Woods achieves in his arch, velvet-cushioned vignettes is a sense of the subjects being reduced to symptom and diagnosis.
It's hardly revolutionary or revealing and Wood is more craftsman than storyteller or cinema essayist.
Not even necrophilia and the imaginative deployment of leeches can relieve this exercise in unrelenting dullness.
Sex can be fun and exciting and wonderful. It also can be deadly boring, as in Pschopathia Sexualis.
...it's clear from the pedantic tone of the dramatic re-enactments (imagine an adult History Channel) that writer-director Bret Wood believes he's showing us the sexual revolution's Magna Carta.
Everything you ever wanted to know about sexual perversity but were afraid to ask is on anemic display in Bret Wood's new film.
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