Yvonne Rainer's 1990 film Privilege ingeniously shifts from documentary to fiction and back as it plays the effects of ageism, sexism and racism off against one another. The effect of this is an extremely broad ranging and compelling social critique that visits the core of the competing power relations that we all negotiate every day. Privilege's marriage of cultural theory, documentary, and the highest level of poetic drama creates an extremely thought provoking film that demands consideration as one of the most important cinematic social critiques of the 1990s. A thoroughly fascinating film.