Cat Swallows Parakeet and Speaks!
1996, English. Directed by Ileana Pietrobruno.
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.
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- 1h 16m
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- English
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- 12 September 1996
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Cat Swallows Parakeet and Speaks! (1996) was directed by Ileana Pietrobruno.