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Female Perversions (1996) 5.5
An ambitious female attorney wallows in excess and meaningless sex with both male and female partners, while dealing with her personal life problems including helping her kleptomaniac sister. Director:Susan Streitfeld |
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| Tilda Swinton | ... |
Eve Stephens
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| Amy Madigan | ... |
Maddie Stephens
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| Karen Sillas | ... |
Renee
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| Frances Fisher | ... |
Annunciata
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| Clancy Brown | ... |
John
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Emma
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Jake Rock
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Langley Flynn
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Dale Shuger | ... |
Edwina
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Trudy
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Beth Stephens
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Nina Wise | ... |
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Judy Jean Berns | ... |
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Dresses, lipsticks, sex - the "perversions" (and neuroses) of Eve, a young, very successful lawyer. Her days are a tightrope act between extreme eloquence and frosty toughness on the one side, and scaring vulnerability on the other. The climax of her career shall be the possibly forthcoming appointment as a judge, but this step seems to be interrupted by her kleptomaniac sister Mad who is arrested after one of her raids. Eve travels to Mad's town to stand by her in the jail. Their struggle about Mad's illness evokes suppressed conflicts. Eve stays at her sister's flat where she meets a girl who fights with her budding femininity. Written by Frank Wallner <wallnerf@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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It's all about power See more »Genres:
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Rated R for intense depictions of psychoerotic themes, scenes of strong sexuality and strong language | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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25 April 1997 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Desejos Femininos See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
ITL 101,019,000 (Italy) (16 May 1997)Gross:
$883,973 (USA) (25 July 1997)Company Credits
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Renee: [chuckles] Let's see... uh, we met in an elevator, right? We had two drinks, went back to my place and had great sex. You had five orgasms, I only had three. And now you are so desperate to see me?
Eve Stephens: [sits down] Very desperate... doctor.
Renee: Well uh... I'm sorry what was your last name?
Eve Stephens: Stephens.
Renee: Miss Stevens, right. In my professional opinion, you are a deeply compulsive, highly neurotic, extremely co-dependent woman who more then likely loves too much... or too little. I can't...
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Written by Ophie Shur
Published by Wolf Tracer Music (BMI)/Cherry River Music (BMI)
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The boom mic visible in different parts of the movie. In one scene where Maddie is thinking about the past looking at the photograph, and in a second scene at the bathroom where Eve and Maddie take a bath together. See more »Quotes
Eve Stephens: I need you desperately.Renee: [chuckles] Let's see... uh, we met in an elevator, right? We had two drinks, went back to my place and had great sex. You had five orgasms, I only had three. And now you are so desperate to see me?
Eve Stephens: [sits down] Very desperate... doctor.
Renee: Well uh... I'm sorry what was your last name?
Eve Stephens: Stephens.
Renee: Miss Stevens, right. In my professional opinion, you are a deeply compulsive, highly neurotic, extremely co-dependent woman who more then likely loves too much... or too little. I can't...
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"Yo Mi Mariachi"Written by Ophie Shur
Published by Wolf Tracer Music (BMI)/Cherry River Music (BMI)
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Half of "Female Perversions" was of interesting female images a la Jane Campion and half was turgid and incomprehensible.
Several people gave up and walked out in the middle. Interestingly, while my friend and I had come as we were in the mood for a dose of strong feminism and possible male-bashing, the pretty full audience for a matinée was 80% male definitely attracted by the beautiful naked female bodies casually on display throughout the movie, including quite a bit of explicit lesbian sex, which tends to put me to sleep as it did in "Go Fish." (You do get to see a glimpse of a naked Clancy Brown).
We were the only ones sitting through the credits trying to figure the movie out and exchanging ideas about what the heck the images, let alone the story line meant. Best were the fantasies and nightmares as images of a successful woman's underlying insecurities.
But what a cop-out to do what seemingly all contemporary fiction does this days - blame it all on parental child sexual abuse. And I thought the sexual interpretation of kleptomania had been discredited 50 years ago (at the turn of the century women shoplifters were cured with hysterectomies!). (originally written 5/24/1997)