Jason Pettus’s review published on Letterboxd:
2016 movie viewings, #114. This is one of the movies at "online art-film theater" MUBI.com that I watched only a half-hour of, so that I could say I had watched enough to form a legitimately informed opinion on it before dismissing it again, which right now is happening, oh, let's say with around 25 percent of the films I choose to watch there. (Of course, it's worth noting that I'm on my first month of membership and am still playing catch-up with all the older titles there, so am feeling free to skip over any that don't naturally sound engaging; once I'm caught up and am sampling every single new movie on the day it's posted, I imagine this "half-hour and done" ratio will be going way up.) It's a documentary about Psychic TV founder Genesis P-Orridge and his late romantic partner Lady Jaye Brewer P-Orridge, who in the '90s and '00s underwent a bizarre experiment in which they attempted as a couple to meld into a single third-gender being, undergoing a series of radical plastic surgeries in order to look more and more like each other.
This could've been a very informative and thought-provoking look at gender issues and performance art; but under the muddled direction of short "museum-film" veteran Marie Losier, it instead consists of not much more than 90 minutes of overly self-conscious home-movie footage, following the pair around while they do mundane tasks like clean their house and cook their dinners, smiling and prancing for the camera while being aware that they have nothing else of interest to actually do, which is then combined with an unending amount of footage of Genesis spouting incomprehensible bullshit about nothing in particular, in a British accent so thick you can barely understand what he's saying. A hugely wasted opportunity, this art-school mess does not come recommended.