
Multi-narrative adaptation of Richard v. Krafft-Ebing's notorious medico-forensic study of sexual perversity.... (Full plot summary below)
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Multi-narrative adaptation of Richard v. Krafft-Ebing's notorious medico-forensic study of sexual perversity.
Leave your thoughts about Psychopathia Sexualis.
| NewsdayJohn AndersonWhat Woods achieves in his arch, velvet-cushioned vignettes is a sense of the subjects being reduced to symptom and diagnosis. |
| OregonianMarc MohanThe turgid accumulation of tedious sex just bores. |
| VarietyJoe LeydonPsychopathia Sexualis exists in the gray area between ponderous stylization and campy affectation. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerThe curiously stylized piece, shot in a muted palette with performances to match (the cast is perhaps too restrained given the theatrical framework), is dramatically colorless, but the moods and moments are crafted with kinky grace. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonAn independent American art film that seems to be masquerading as Victorian-era pornography--and it's not quite as interesting or provocative as that description might make it sound. |
| New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisWhether in the whorehouse or the sanitarium, Psychopathia Sexualis is an exercise in unrelenting dullness. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThe director's familiarity with silent cinema enhances the prudish pornographic footage, but when he starts cutting between separate perversions, I began to wonder if he was getting as bored with the material as I was. |
| Film Journal InternationalEric MonderManages to be provocative without being exploitative. |
| Seattle TimesTed FryPsychopathia Sexualis isn't sexy enough to be soft porn. Neither will it cause an excess of cerebral stimulation. |
| New York PostV.A. MusettoSex can be fun and exciting and wonderful. It also can be deadly boring, as in Psychopathia Sexu alis. |