Portnoy’s Complaint
Year: 1972
Runtime: 101 mins
Language: English
Director: Ernest Lehman
During a psychoanalytic session, Alexander Portnoy delivers a monologue about his childhood, his mother, his sexual fantasies and relationships with women, and his obsessive preoccupation with his Jewish identity. The film adapts Philip Roth’s novel, using therapy to expose Portnoy’s desires, guilt and the clash between freedom and cultural norms.
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