Perfect cast and a good story

One of the best films i have seen

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

A surprisingly compelling artsy-indie type movie. I usually dislike obtrusive direction, including weird fantasy sequences, but these worked quite well here. This appears to be a consciously feminist project, as the directing, writing, and producing credits are almost all female, as well as all of the important characters. The cast was full of incredible actresses. The point of view character is played masterfully by Tilda Swinton, who was intense but yet confused and damaged. Amy Madigan nailed her also damaged character. Other supporting actresses who are excellent in their parts, and beautiful to boot, include Laila Robins, Frances Fisher, Paulina Porizkova, and especially Karen Sillas. Definitely worth seeing.

The compulsive, neurotic, deranged and bi-sexual efficient and tough lawyer Evelyn Stephens (Tilda Swinton) is depending on an interview with the Governor to be appointed as a judge in the court of law. Her kleptomaniac sister Maddie Stephens (Amy Madigan) is finishing her PhD in UCLA. While waiting for her interview, Eve has a simultaneous affair with John (Clancy Brown) and the psychologist Renee (Karen Sillas), and helps her mean sister to leave the jail, arrested in a shoplifting."Female Perversions" is a weird movie with bizarre characters. The sad soundtrack and the photography are very beautiful and the interpretations of the cast are excellent. However, although being intriguing and provocative in some moments, the story never reaches a point and sometimes becomes boring. Further, although having naked women and many sex scenes, they are not erotic and does not excite, at least under the view of a man. I did not like this movie, but I recognize that it is a stylistic film with great performances. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Desejos Femininos" ("Female Desires")

Spoilers herein.This is a very ambitious film. It attempts to merge the cool abstract perspective of Hal Hartley with the visceral exploration of personal damage of Jane Campion. These two seem contradictory and indeed are not successfully combined here.But it has some very lovely and lasting images, enough so that the experience is definitely worthwhile. The project actually seems to have been conceived around a few of these set pieces, then loosely tied together with some narrative bits.When people take chances like this, they deserve our attention. They deserve as much risk in the watching as they took in the making. Not everyone believes in risky watching - but if you do, you can trust Tilda. The idea here is that women are victims of the roles thrust upon them. Tilda is more intelligent as an actress than is Streitfeld as a filmmaker so she is thrust into much the same situation. Watch how she uses the latter to illuminate the former. This is not the intended exploration of how woman misfit into society, instead concerns how they misfit into the film imagination.That's where the Hartley technique comes in. His films are about films, with lots of self comment and layer shifting. Not all of this worked for me, but enough did.The key failure is in balancing archetype and stereotype in presenting character icons. Here, we haveEve, who is unfairly reduced to a sexually confused parental rejectMaddie, her sister who gets a doctorate in her own pathology, emotional theftAnnunciata, a selfconstructed stripper/seducerRenee, a reluctant bisexual psychiatristLangley, a character that only women will appreciate, the womaneating weaselEmma, terminally hungry for loveEd, hypnotized by her commanding wombAn Earth MotherAn absent motherIf this sounds like Greenaway's `8 1/2 Women` taxonomy, it is. You might go there for a better purely abstract examination of this same notion of roles as prisons/perversions.If you merely need the visceral, `Ten Tiny Love Stories,' may be your station. The notion of roles and fantasy layering is also in `Heavenly Creatures,' and better. Here's a delicious irony. Notice that the first three women on the list are redheads? I'm convinced that one of the strongest automatic perceptions, one of the deepest, hardwired presumptions about the female image is associated with red hair. Would have been good to know if Streitfeld was an unwitting victim of this.Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.

"Female Perversions" is short on story and long on character as it peers into the life of an ambitious attorney (Swinton) who is far more confident in a courtroom than in her own insecure and sexually needy personal life. Apparently a sort of testament to the female condition, this flick by women about women surrounds Swinton with a conglomeration of neurotic females as it plods doggedly through a maze of peculiar behavior. On the upside, this deep character study offers some excellent performances as it explores its dark and aberrant landscape. On the downside, the film is a little over-the-top and glommed up with symbolism, dream sequences, and excursions into the surreal. Lacking in story, unpleasant in subject, and artsy-fartsy in execution, the common filmgoer may find this flick unsatisfying. However, for those into deep character studies and psychodramas, an interesting watch awaits. (B)