Female Perversions

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Female Perversions

R,

1996,

1h 50m,

Drama/

LGBTQ+

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67%

21 Reviews

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45%

500+ Ratings

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500+ Ratings

Evelyn (Tilda Swinton) is a lawyer who is soon to become a judge, but her intense focus on her career has resulted in a cold demeanor and passion-filled but ultimately dissatisfying personal life. She has a boyfriend (Clancy Brown) and a lover (Karen Sillas) but connects with neither. When her sister, Maddie (Amy Madigan), gets caught shoplifting, however, and she goes to the middle of nowhere to save her, Eve gets the chance to learn more about her own demons and troubled childhood.

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Emanuel Levy

Variety

Jun 27, 2006

3/4

The women (played by Tilda Swinton and Amy Madigan) are so intriguing and complex that they almost overcome the trappings of a non-linear narrative that's borderline academic.

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Rick Groen

Globe and Mail

Apr 12, 2002

3/4

The result is short on plot but long on observational detail and psychological resonance.

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Kevin Thomas

Los Angeles Times

Feb 14, 2001

Even if it works better as a provocative psychological treatise than as art, it does come alive and does provide major roles for Tilda Swinton and Amy Madigan.

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Michele Kort

The Advocate

Apr 5, 2022

It's a challenge to adapt a nonfiction book about sex into a fictional film. Lesbian director-cowriter Susan Streitfeld meets the test in her darkly funny, absurdist adaptation of Louise J. Kaplan's Female Perversions.

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Ren Jender

Bitch Flicks

Mar 8, 2019

I'm not sure I've ever seen nudity used as well in a film as it is in Perversions.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

May 31, 2013

C+

I could never warm up to any of the characters or their perversions or neuroses.

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Susan Streitfeld

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Tilda Swinton

Evelyn 'Eve' Stephens

Amy Madigan

Madelyn 'Maddie' Stephens

Karen Sillas

Renee

Laila Robins

Emma

Clancy Brown

John

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Synopsis

Evelyn (Tilda Swinton) is a lawyer who is soon to become a judge, but her intense focus on her career has resulted in a cold demeanor and passion-filled but ultimately dissatisfying personal life. She has a boyfriend (Clancy Brown) and a lover (Karen Sillas) but connects with neither. When her sister, Maddie (Amy Madigan), gets caught shoplifting, however, and she goes to the middle of nowhere to save her, Eve gets the chance to learn more about her own demons and troubled childhood.

Director: Susan Streitfeld
Producer: Mindy Affrime
Screenwriter: Susan Streitfeld, Julie Hébert
Distributor: October Films, Lakeshore Entertainment
Production Co: Starhaus Filmproduktion GmbH, ARD Degeto Film
Rating: R
Genre: Drama, LGBTQ+
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 22, 1996, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 31, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $884.0K
Runtime: 1h 50m

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