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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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Manages to be provocative without being exploitative.

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

It’s a mildly enjoyable romp.

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

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

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
06/09/06
John Anderson
John Anderson
Newsday
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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.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
06/06/06
Benjamin Strong
Benjamin Strong
Village Voice

Everything you ever wanted to know about sexual perversity but were afraid to ask is on anemic display in Bret Wood's new film.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
06/05/06
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

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
Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
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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
Joe Leydon
Variety
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Lurid though the material is, the film is scrupulously anti-erotic.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
06/09/06
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

The turgid accumulation of tedious sex just bores.

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

It's hardly revolutionary or revealing and Wood is more craftsman than storyteller or cinema essayist.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
06/09/06
Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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
Ted Fry
Seattle Times

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
Ty Burr
Boston Globe

Sex can be fun and exciting and wonderful. It also can be deadly boring, as in Pschopathia Sexualis.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
06/08/06
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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06/30/07
Michael Wilmington
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Chicago Tribune
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