Weininger's Last Night

Based on the final night of Otto Weininger, one of Sigmund Freud's most infamous case studies, WEININGER'S LAST NIGHT is like a big, ripe Sacher torte crawling with maggots. Adapted and directed by Paulus Manker from Joshua Sobel's play The Soul of a Jew, the film is one big gleeful freak-out on turn-of-the-century Austrian themes.

Otto Weininger, a Jew in an increasingly hostile Vienna, transformed his self-hate into a perverse philosophy. He published a book in 1903 called Sex and Character which posited a racist, sexist separation of the beneficent, male, Christian character from the evil, Jewish, female character. His theories were eventually...