I Am a Sex Addict.

We've posted a review and we've followed the brouhaha (comments on that entry are closed due to a spam onslaught; but you can comment here, if you like). The fallout seems to be dissipating; what appear to be wrap-up exchanges between all parties involved are posted in the comments to a recent entry at Caveh Zahedi's blog. Now then. To the film itself...

Caveh Zahedi on the night Sex Addict opened in San Francisco.
© Dennis Woo.

Susan Gerhard knows Amanda Field pretty well. "The long-suffering girlfriend in [Caveh] Zahedi's year-long video diary of 1999, In the Bathtub of the World, Field plays a new part in Zahedi's eyebrow-raising latest, I Am a Sex Addict. She is his wife." At SF360, Gerhard sits down with the couple to talk through their traumas and triumphs.

James Rocchi at Cinematical: "Zahedi's film essentially takes his own life, skins it, pins it to the table with a careful eye and then cuts directly to the meat of the matter; it's less a documentary than it is a dissection. What's worthy of note is that not only is the knifework on display elegant, but it's also good humored - and never applied unnecessarily to bystanders."

In the SF Weekly, Jim Ridley calls I Am a Sex Addict "a funny, inventive, ground-shifting hybrid of essay film, mea culpa, and pathological real-life romantic farce [which] aims for truth by wrecking its own verisimilitude."

"[I]ntermittently grueling and funny," says Jeffrey M Anderson.

Posted by dwhudson at April 9, 2006 3:10 AM