A leitmotif of masochism and sado-masochism forms the pivot around which the sexual encounters in this banal erotic film turn, and turn, and turn. (This content was the controversial reason the two co-directors were refused a government subsidy for their work.) Wanda is a dominatrix who lures men and women of all types into her sado-masochistic ...
Filmmaker Monika Treut, who has made a career out of documenting the outer edges of human sexual expression, takes a look at a group of politically- and socially-conscious transsexuals in a study of what one interview subject calls "gender elimination phenomena." Participants include adult film star and performance artist Annie Sprinkle, internet ...
When her search for the chemical components of "romantic" love prove fruitless in her native Hamburg, naïve German journalist Dorothee travels to San Francisco to conduct "research" in director Monika Treut's unabashedly hedonistic exploration of one woman's sexuality. Soon introduced to the city's thriving lesbian scene, Dorothee's encounters ...
A video of four short films on controversial subjects. A profile of "Sexual Personae" author Camille Paglia; a documentary on Annie Sprikle, pornographic film star; a profile of Carol, a woman who supports S-M; and a short look at transsexualism. ~ All Movie Guide
In this comedy, a lesbian lass emigrates from Germany to New York to become an actress. Once there she begins sharing an apartment with a gay fellow. Things are just dandy until her straight-laced dad Hans announces that he wants to visit and meet the husband she had written so much about. Of course there is no husband and Vicky must think of ...
In this low-budget German documentary, filmmaker Monika Treut profiles Norwegian-born actress-sex therapist Eva Norvind. Born in 1944 as Eva Johanne Chegodayeva Sakonskaya, daughter of a Russian prince and a Finnish sculptress, she studied in New York and was penniless when she traveled to Mexico during the '60s. As Eva Norvind, she found roles in ...
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Monika Treut follows up on her 1999 opus Gendernauts with this look at Brazilian socialite-turned-activist Yvonne Bezerra de Mello. The wife of Alvaro Bezerra de Mello, a scion from a wealthy hotel-owning family, Yvonne lived in the very lap of luxury. She spent her time sculpting, writing, caring for her children, ...
This unique, erotic film is a compilation of four separate vignettes done by four different artists. The first episode, "Let's Talk about Love," focuses on a phone-sex worker, Rosie, who finds herself attracted to a regular caller. The story focuses upon their conversations and upon the revenge she exacts from him after she learns the truth. In ...
A woman who is mourning the love of her life falls into a relationship with a mysterious stranger in this psychological drama from director Monika Treut. Sophie (Inga Busch) is a German artist in her early forties who has been thrown in an emotional tailspin after the death of the woman she loved, Chen Ai-ling (Ke Huan-ru). Sophie has created a ...
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