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The Other Side of the Underneath

1972 2h 22m Drama List
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A therapist looks into the mind of a woman diagnosed as schizophrenic and finds, not madness, but tortured sexual guilt created by the taboos of society.

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Richard Brody New Yorker Terrifying performances of dissociated patients veer into theatrical tableaux of double-talk and outlandish costumes, of religious rites merging with marriage fantasies, music-hall bawdiness with rock-club slasher games. Oct 30, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member A discordant double bass wails while a woman in a crumbling room overlooking an industrial estate sits up in bed with a sheep, being terrorized by another woman in a skullcap and huge paper mache nose who keeps asking in a creepy witch-voice "Do you want a magic hat or not." One of the subtler, less unsettling scenes in Jane Arden's screamingly insane meditation on the female psyce and what have you. This is one of those films which I love for being made a bit more than I love watching, like Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain or Eraserhead. But I do LOVE that it was made, here in Britain, and that someone somewhere paid for it, in more ways than one. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A therapist looks into the mind of a woman diagnosed as schizophrenic and finds, not madness, but tortured sexual guilt created by the taboos of society.
Director
Jane Arden
Producer
Jack Bond
Screenwriter
Jane Arden
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Runtime
2h 22m