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...tries to disabuse his followers by telling about a long-drawn-out adulterous affair in his past. Author Narayan lavishes more space on this part of his story than it may be worth, but in its course he etches three striking character portraits. The adulteress is an Indian Madame Bovary; the cuckolded husband is an academic mole blind to his wife's yearnings; and Raju himself is the perennially Circefied male. After his confession, Raju expects the villagers to renounce him. But they disbelieve him-or are wise enough to know that he is not the same...
Since a foreign picture cannot be booked in most U.S. cities without Manhattan reviews, Father Panchali will almost certainly not be booked elsewhere in the U.S. Meantime, Manhattan's art houses looked more than ever like tart houses, as their marquees showed: The Adulteress ("absorbing drama of sin"), And God Created Woman (starring Brigitte Bardot), Sins of Casanova ("wicked"), The Bride Was Much Too Beautiful (Brigitte Bardot), Smiles of a Summer Night ("bawdy, nawdy"), The Light Across the Street (Brigitte Bardot...
...Adulteress (Hakim; Times Film) sounds as if it might be pornographic. It is based on Emile Zola's early novel, Thérèse Raquin, a somber slice of life that was called pornographic as soon as it came out. Neither book nor movie is. Written with Naturalist Zola's unfailing passion for the sordid underside of reality, the book showed how illicit love led to murder, how murder turned love to hate, how hate led to plots of new murders, and how a couple of suicides ended the whole bloody business. The movie plucks the story...
...divorce from her first husband. Two years later, when the error was discovered, Jackson and Rachel were remarried. But Rachel Jackson was often the object of slanderous gossip (Jackson fought duels to defend her honor), and during his campaign for the presidency, his political enemies called her an adulteress. Although she died before Jackson was inaugurated, she lived to hear the news of his election...
...Roaring Mountain by Lemonade Lake is about an adulteress who is shot dead by her husband and goes to Hell. The Devil is there to meet her-"a naked gigantic man" with "flat muscled belly and symmetrical widespread legs." He is "reckless," "virile," "resistless," "incontestable," "beautiful," "sinister," "primordial and unrestrained, fierce, overmastering, intemperate," "an essence ... of masculinity" fraught with "potent magnetism"-in brief, "the man every woman hopes she'll be raped by." Whenever the Devil fulfills these hopes, it causes a thunderstorm to break over Hell; much of Roaring Mountain is devoted to this special type of weather...