Irishchatter
The movie was just awful!I honestly thought there was just no feel or idea of what would happen next throughout the movie. There was so much cutting and forced sex involved that I just had to skip the scenes because they were too realistic. I don't know why they would let a teenage boy take photographs of poor trashy women posing in a sexual way and leaving the boy to look at them. It was so distasteful! The only positive I can say about this film was Tilda Swinton, she really was so attractive in the movie, however they should've given her more lines when she needed it.
The_Film_Cricket
Remember that old song that says 'Sometimes it's hard to be a woman'. Well, its a message that a movie like 'Female Perversions' tries to communicate over and over and over until it exhausts it's own theme. I'm sure that it may be hard for some women to succeed in the business world but this movie goes about it in a self-piteous and irritating way.The movie concerns a young lawyer named Eve who is frustrated every minute of every day because she has to fit a certain mold, 'play ball' so to speak to compete in order to further her own career. She is in line for a judgeship so with every fiber of femininity she is overly frustrated. So competitive is Eve that when she sees another woman in the ladies room putting on the same color lipstick she throws hers in the trash.Eve seems to use sex as a punctuation mark, as affirmation that women like sex too. She has a strange affair with an executive (Clancy Brown) who likes to perform their sexual circus tricks in his office (he seems to get off on being caught). In an elevator one day she picks up a woman and begins a brief affair with her before being told 'I'm not ready for this kind of relationship'.Eve always seems to be cracking up and escapes into sexual fantasies involving bondage at the hands of lip smacking males. She fantasizes that she is being instructed by an older woman to express herself sexually and open up.Another problem: Eve has a sister, Madelyn, who lives in the country and compulsively shoplifts. Madelyn's shoplifting is giving Eve fits because she's afraid that it will cause as scandal and this is not the kind of black eye her career needs. The contrast between Eve and Madelyn are so obvious that you can see it written on the page – Eve is a career woman, Madelyn is a student, Eve dresses in power suits while Madelyn dresses casually.Tilda Swinton whom I have adored in films like 'The Ballad of Little Jo' and 'Orlando' got on my nerves in the first half hour of the film. She's suppose to be strong willed and always fighting for what she wants but all I saw was a frustrated tinderbox, a pouty irritating woman who would be better off if she would just settle down and have a little decaf.
kkretzart
This film is like no other: I find it indescribably brilliant and subtle. If you watch it many times over, as I have, you will discover infinite layers. (Even the props have hidden messages in them!) This film is so on-target about the complexities of being a woman in our time. I feel it should be required watching for 20 year old women entering the real world, followed by a discussion with women who have lived in it for a while. It seems like it might be a difficult film for a man to understand. Perhaps some of the responses here are from people who never should have picked up this movie in the first place, a case of bad labeling or description on the jacket. I was recently reminded of the existence of this film, although it is in my collection. I will presently look for anything that this screenwriter/director has made since, as she is nothing short of brilliant.
byroncallas
I am somewhat surprised by the scathing reviews posted for what I found a provocative and entertaining work. I do guess that is what makes horse races. I rated the work a 10 and recommend it to anyone looking for something unconventional that requires you to think. I can see not agreeing with the filmmaker's perspective, but that it HAS a perspective is more than most films, and sets this little work apart. The performances were well crafted. Tilda Swinton does what she does best - gets under your skin and makes you squirm a bit. She is thoroughly uncomfortable to watch, by design I believe, and very effective. I think this is a fine little film.
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