| Genre: | Drama |
| Year: | 1996 |
| Rating: | R |
| Cast: | Tilda Swinton, Karen Sillas, Amy Madigan |
| Credits: | Directed by: Susan Streitfeld |
Synopsis
Eve Stephens (Tilda Swinton), the excruciatingly conflicted central character in Female Perversions is a high-powered trial lawyer so obsessed with appearances and competition that when she runs into another woman wearing the same trendy shade of lipstick (its called "Red Pussycat") she flies into a rage and furiously tosses her tube of the stuff into the trash
Ms Swinton, who was so intriguingly gender-bending in Orlando, inbues this character with an impetuous, high-strung hauter that is intended to symbolize a kind of Everywoman, specifically Everysuperwoman, who is struggling to climb the professional ladder while remainign alluringly "feminine." Her "perversions," which the movie announces in didactic graffiti conveniently scrawled on sides of buildings and telephone boohts, are her attempts to force herself to fit a stereotypical male-defined image od the ideal woman.
The film, directed by Sysan Streitfield, who wrote the screenplay with Julie Hebert, is inspired by Dr. Louis J. Kaplan's book Female Perversions: The Temptations of Ema Bovary, an impressionistic exploration of women's memories, fantasies and nightmares.
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