It's a mildly enjoyable romp.
Psychopathia Sexualis
Tales of Deviance and Forbidden Desire from the Case Studies of Krafft-Ebing.
2006 · 1h 42m · R
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Bret Wood
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Psychopathia Sexualis
Overview
Multi-narrative adaptation of Richard v. Krafft-Ebing's notorious medico-forensic study of sexual perversity.
Director and cast
- Bret Wood Director
- Kristi Casey as Blood Woman
- David Weber as Blood Man
- Zoe Cooper as Shepherdess
- Patrick Parker as Emil Fourquet (as Patrick L. Parker)
- David Sanders as Fourquet's Assistant
- Roger Foster as Farm Laborer
- Jason Hodges as Guard
- Steven Westdahl as Joseph Vacher
- Victor Lambert as Guard
- Adam K. Thompson as Journalist
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Lugubrious to the extreme of unintended comedy, the movie suggests a regional dinner theater production of a late- ' 80s Peter Greenaway film.
Psychopathia Sexualis seems both plodding and snickering in its almost comically tepid rendering of masochism, homosexuality,
Psychopathia Sexualis isn't sexy enough to be soft porn. Neither will it cause an excess of cerebral stimulation.
What Woods achieves in his arch, velvet-cushioned vignettes is a sense of the subjects being reduced to symptom and diagnosis.
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