Cat Swallows Parakeet and Speaks! (1996)

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76 min - Comedy

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Cat Swallows Parakeet and Speaks!, Ileana Pietrobruno's triumph of mid-vaginal modernism masterfully confronts the surreal nature of societal attitudes towards the female body... See full summary »

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Credited cast:
	Rachel Cronin	...	Snow White
	Crystal Dahl	...	Nurse
	Alex Ferguson	...	Dr. Storey
	Tara Frederick	...	Scheherazade
	Rebecca Godin	...	Kore
	Marnie Robinson	...	Model
	Wendy Russell	...	Nurse
	Christine Taylor	...	Ballerina

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Cat Swallows Parakeet and Speaks!, Ileana Pietrobruno's triumph of mid-vaginal modernism masterfully confronts the surreal nature of societal attitudes towards the female body. Beautifully shot at Riverview Hospital (formerly an insane asylum), the film follows the journey of Scheherazade, a young model attempting to insulate herself from paternalistic and sinister medicalization throught the re-telling of tabloid tales. Replete with lesbians, anorexics, necrophillic undertones and a deluge of menstrual blood, Pietrobruno's febrile fable contains enough raw passion to ignite the sensiblities of even the most faded feminists. Written by Ileana Pietrobruno <pietrobruno@hotmail.com>

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