Female Perversions
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights (meaning arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating, the movie starts after midnite)!
Director: Susan Streitfeld Run Time: 114 min. Format: DCP Rating: R Release Year: 1996
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Clancy Brown, Karen Sillas, Amy Madigan, Frances Fisher, Marcia Cross, Paulina Porizkova
The Future of Film is Female presents the NY premiere of the new 4k restoration of FEMALE PERVERSIONS. Includes a recorded introduction by director Streitfeld. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.
Eve Stephens (Tilda Swinton in her US film debut), is a bi-sexual lawyer on the edge of professional breakthrough, personal breakdown, and sexual awakening in this erotic psychological drama. Shocking when it was first released in 1996 and now deemed a “Feminist Classic,” FEMALE PERVERSIONS returns in a brand new 4K restoration. A Sundance Grand Jury Nominee from director Susan Streitfeld.
FEMALE PERVERSIONS marks the feature film debut of director and co-writer Susan Streitfeld as well as the American film debut of Tilda Swinton. Based on the 1991 psychology text Female Perversions: The Temptations of Emma Bovary by Louise J. Kaplan, Streitfeld’s film is an inspired amalgamation of erotic drama and psychological thriller set within the cutthroat environs of the Los Angeles justice system
Restoration by Vinegar Syndrome/Cinématographe. A Hope Runs High Release.
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