The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006)

Directed by

Sophie Fiennes

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

2h 30m

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 175 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Slavoj Žižek talks through famous movie scenes using psychoanalysis. He stands inside reconstructed sets while explaining hidden meanings.

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What happens

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema is a 2006 documentary directed and produced by Sophie Fiennes, and scripted and presented by Slavoj Žižek. It explores a number of films from a psychoanalytic theoretical perspective. Fiennes and Žižek released a follow-up, The Pervert's Guide to Ideology on 15 November 2012, with a similar format; Žižek speaks from within reconstructed scenes from films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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