The Other Side of the Underneath
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Directed by Jane Arden | 110 mins | 1972
In the chronology of female psychosis on screen, "The Other Side of the Underneath" falls between "Repulsion" (1965) and "Possession" (1981)—but this confronting work of Ken Russell-esque surrealism is hardly concerned with chronological matters. Unseen for decades, Jane Arden’s radical feminist cri de coeur might just be the mother of movie mental breakdowns.
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