The Little death / Psychopathia sexualis

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The Little Death : A strong-willed reformer (Courtney Patterson) ventures into a turn-of-the-century brothel to confront the owner (Daniel May), and liberate a young woman whom she believes is held there in sexual captivity. While the brothel-owner attempts to mesmerize and seduce the would-be rescuer, a meek student (Clifton Guterman) and a young prostitute (Christie Vozniak) become tragic pawns in the game of sexual cat-and-mouse that is rapidly unfolding. Based on the play "Death and Devil" by Frank Wedekind ("Spring Awakening"), integrated with Anton Chekhov's short story "A Nervous Breakdown".

Psychopathia Sexualis : Described as "kinky material trapped in a cage of Victorian propriety" (The New York Times), Psychopathia Sexualis is a dreamlike depiction of turn-of-the-century sexual deviance, from the pages of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's notorious medical text. As he interweaves fables of sexual repression, vampirism, hypnosis, sado-masochism and lesbianism, writer/director Bret Wood (Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films) creates a haunted vision of an era when medical science endeavored to label, cure or eliminate anyone who refused to conform to its idea of sexual "normalcy."

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