"Kolya" and "Female Perversions," tonight at 7 at State Theater, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick.

Susan Streitfeld, 43, who directed "Female Perversions" and wrote it with Julie Hebert, based on a nonfiction psychology book about female sexuality, agrees.

"Female Perversions," which opened last month, follows a lawyer pursuing a judgeship who must balance power and career with femininity and sexual desire.

Mr. Miller explained very well the central theses of "Female Perversions."

In "Female Perversions," I explain that perversion is a mental strategy employed by men and women who have been severely traumatized in childhood.

In the phantasmagoric world of Susan Streitfeld's new film, "Female Perversions," everything usually deemed normal for a woman becomes a perversion.

But she was willing to sketch in a few details of her childhood and her six-year effort to make "Female Perversions."

In 1996, Susan Streitfeld directed a movie based on the book, "Female Perversions."

In 1996 she adapted the novel Female Perversions into a screenplay with Susan Stretfield.

"Female Perversions" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or guardian).