Female perversions
| Movie | |
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| German title | Female perversions |
| Original title | Female perversions |
| Country of production | USA , Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Susan Streitfeld |
| script | Louise J. Kaplan |
| production | Mindy Affrime |
| music | Debbie Wiseman |
| camera | Teresa Medina |
| cut |
Curtiss Clayton Leo Trombetta |
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Female Perversions (subtitled Fantasies of a Woman or Female Perversions ) is director Susan Streitfeld's debut film from 1996. It is based on the feminist novel Female Perversions: The Temptations of Emma Bovary by Louise J. Kaplan. Emma Bovary, in turn, quotes Gustave Flaubert's early emancipatory novel Madame Bovary .
action
Eve Stephens ( Tilda Swinton ), a successful prosecutor, falls into a crisis when she faces the high point of her career, the appointment of a judge, and her kleptomaniac sister Madelyn ( Amy Madigan ), nicknamed Maddie, is arrested. In flashbacks and dream images, she processes her past, the relationship with her lover John ( Clancy Brown ) and the erotic relationship with the psychotherapist Renee ( Karen Sillas ).
The film mainly deals with the relationship between the two sisters and their emotionally cold and success-oriented father, who apparently preferred one of the sisters. His contempt for women shows in his relationship with his mother and in the mental problems of the sisters. In the end, the two sisters realize their parents' vicious influence on their lives and the questionable reactions they have embraced without wanting to. One seeks relief from stealing and the other from unrelated sex.
criticism
film-dienst : A provocative contribution that, through its fragmentary structure and play with different levels of reality, researches the possibilities of female identity.