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Psychopathia Sexualis (2006)

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Reviews Counted: 13

Fresh: 3

Rotten:10

Average Rating: 4.5/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins

Genre: Dramas

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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06/30/07
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
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Manages to be provocative without being exploitative.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
03/01/07
Eric Monder
Film Journal International

It’s a mildly enjoyable romp.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
08/17/06
Ernest Hardy
L.A. Weekly

Lugubrious to the extreme of unintended comedy, the movie suggests a regional dinner theater production of a late- ' 80s Peter Greenaway film.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
07/14/06
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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The turgid accumulation of tedious sex just bores.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
06/16/06
Marc Mohan
Oregonian

Psychopathia Sexualis seems both plodding and snickering in its almost comically tepid rendering of masochism, homosexuality,

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
06/09/06
Joe Leydon
Variety
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Lurid though the material is, the film is scrupulously anti-erotic.

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06/09/06
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Psychopathia Sexualis isn't sexy enough to be soft porn. Neither will it cause an excess of cerebral stimulation.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
06/09/06
Ted Fry
Seattle Times

What Woods achieves in his arch, velvet-cushioned vignettes is a sense of the subjects being reduced to symptom and diagnosis.

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06/09/06
John Anderson
Newsday
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It's hardly revolutionary or revealing and Wood is more craftsman than storyteller or cinema essayist.

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06/09/06
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Not even necrophilia and the imaginative deployment of leeches can relieve this exercise in unrelenting dullness.

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06/08/06
Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
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Sex can be fun and exciting and wonderful. It also can be deadly boring, as in Pschopathia Sexualis.

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06/08/06
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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...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.

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06/06/06
Benjamin Strong
Village Voice
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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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06/05/06
Ed Gonzalez
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