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Cat Swallows Parakeet and Speaks! (1996)
Directed by Ileana Pietrobruno
· 1h 16m
Ileana Pietrobruno's triumph of mid-vaginal modernism masterfully confronts the surreal nature of societal attitudes towards the female body. Beautifully shot at Riverview Hospital (formerly an insane asylum), the film follows the journey of Scheherazade, a young model attempting to insulate herself from paternalistic and sinister medicalization throught the re-telling of tabloid tales. Replete with lesbians, anorexics, necrophillic undertones and a deluge of menstrual blood, Pietrobruno's febrile fable contains enough raw passion to ignite the sensibilities of even the most faded feminists.
Crew
- Director
- Ileana Pietrobruno
- Writer
- Ileana Pietrobruno
- Editor
- Ileana Pietrobruno
- Producer
- Ileana Pietrobruno
Details
- Release date
- 1996-09-12
- Runtime
- 1h 16m
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English