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The Pervert's Guide to Utopias

2026 · 133 min

A dizzying, playful lecture that leaps between clips and ideas, asking you to keep up as it provokes and amuses in equal measure.

Directed by
Sophie Fiennes
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Slavoj Žižek
Overview
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek is our guide through landscapes of classic film, music, social media, archive and webcasts. Making unexpected twists and turns, he maps the utopian illusions of our times. Through absurd juxtapositions and startling insights, we are seduced into recognising our fate, in order to change it.

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Directed by
Sophie Fiennes
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Slavoj Žižek
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How it feels

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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • politics
  • media
  • identity
  • technology
Places
None
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour6
Realism7
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity9
Emotional weight5

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Genres
documentary
Directed by
Sophie Fiennes
Starring
Slavoj Žižek
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
133 min
Country
Ireland, United Kingdom, Slovenia, Netherlands, Norway
Languages
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