Coming Apart

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Coming Apart

1969

1h 50m

Drama

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An obsessed psychiatrist (Rip Torn) secretly films himself and neurotic women in his apartment.

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Budd Wilkins

Slant Magazine

Sep 22, 2022

Austere and affecting, Milton Moses Ginsberg’s acerbic Coming Apart reflects on varying acts of degradation and dissolution.

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Joe Morgenstern

Newsweek

Jul 6, 2022

The material is weak to the point of self-parody, and the performers are left to their own devices, and we're left to wonder just what those devices are.

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Richard Schickel

LIFE

Jul 18, 2023

The film's effect is powerful, not least because of Rip Torn's brilliant performance as he transforms himself from a man making a half-serious experiment in living to a creature ensnared in a trap of his own devising.

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Kathy Fennessy

Video Librarian Magazine

Nov 15, 2022

3.5/5

...the tension between style and substance—a critique of sexism using the tools of sexism—makes Coming Apart such a singular piece of work, one just as likely to inspire strong feelings now as it did then.

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Jacob Brackman

Esquire Magazine

Aug 13, 2020

The performers appear to believe that they are participating in something sexy, as if their destructiveness were itself arousing, or as if they could interrupt it and get on with the sexy part, without its sickness seeping over in time.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Jul 3, 2005

2/5

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Jo M.

@Idgie May 11, 2026

Waste of time. Dated male dominated pathos.

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Sep 21, 2015

creepy but completely compelling character study

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Mar 21, 2015

Does some interesting stuff, but isn't particularly good. Coulda cut almost half the movie. Tedious, and it shouldn't be.

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Mar 23, 2011

A powerful, sexually-charged character drama that takes what could have been an annoying cinematic gimmick and makes it work for a probingly voyeuristic intensity. Raw, naturalistic performances from an excellent cast. An extraordinary film.

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Dec 4, 2010

1960s pretentiousness, that is stick-a-needle-in-your eye boring.

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Jun 23, 2009

Fucked up shrink films self Bad sex and moral decay Not quite "erotic"

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Synopsis

An obsessed psychiatrist (Rip Torn) secretly films himself and neurotic women in his apartment.

Director: Milton Moses Ginsberg
Producer: Israel Davis, Andrew J. Kuehn
Screenwriter: Milton Moses Ginsberg
Distributor: Gémini Films [fr], Kino Video, Kaleidoscope Films
Production Co: Kaleidoscope Pictures
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 26, 1969, Wide
Release Date (DVD): Jun 11, 2007
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.6K
Runtime: 1h 50m
Sound Mix: Mono
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.37:1)

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