Rating: NR
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 04/10/2000
Dubbed: English
Sound: 2
Run Time: 111 Minutes
Flags: Nudity, Not For Children, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Kino
The considerable talents
Rip Torn,
Viveca Lindfors and
Sally Kirkland are largely squandered in this Manhattan-based film. In this symbolic and erotic drama Manhattan psychiatrist Joe Glazer (
Torn) is a psychoanalyst who specializes in female neuroses. Obsessed by his work, he begins filming his sessions, voyeuristically watching the results in his off-hours. He interviews a masochist who can only be sexually aroused with pain (
Markle) and is willingly fellated by his sex-starved patient JoAnn (
Kirkland). He is also pursued by an uninhibited hippie girl and a transvestite. In his focus to help his patients, Joe fails to realize he is falling into his own world of madness. His sexual encounters are a diversion which prevent him from admitting his own feelings, wants and needs, and his filmmaking activities climax with a record of his own emotional background. Nudity and sexual situations prompted an X rating for this film at the time of the initial release.
~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
