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No stranger to controversy, Ken Russell’s twisted black comedy plays like a gonzo variation on “Belle de Jour” mixed with Hitchcock’s “Psycho.” As an icy fashion designer who moonlights as a fifty-dollar street hooker, Kathleen Turner romances more than the stone when kinky client Anthony Perkins pays her a visit. Wielding a razor-tipped vibrator affectionately nicknamed Superman, Perkins’ demented customer makes Norman Bates look like a choirboy.
This disturbing French psychodrama stars Isabelle Huppert as a repressed fortysomething music instructor whose codependent relationship with her mother drives her to the point of masochistic self-injury. Haunting the local porno shops and voyeuristically spying on couples having sex, Huppert’s character eventually seduces a 17-year old piano student. Their obsessive courtship moves from humiliation and degradation to rape and murderous violence.
