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...friend for life. A character, I said, of course.” Close up on Darling: when we meet her again in the narrative proper, she’s a 29-year-old reporter for the Washington Post by day, femme fatale by night. “Every affair was a movie, an adventure bathed in mythic romance; every seduction conjured up a brand-new way to be,” she recounts. Darling provides a laundry list of the sundry men she’s tumbled into bed with during the temporal black hole since that bedtime chat freshman...
...Stevie Salas and Dorian Heartsong captures the careless, rebellious, and dangerous energy of the film. The movie also intersperses shaky, close-up hand-camera shots with picturesque and still images, which lends “Live Free or Die” the look of a beautiful, low-budget affair, which is doubtlessly what earned the film’s critical acclaim. Sadly, the poor direction and too-minimal editing create an unfocused melodrama out of what could have been either a riotous comedy or a love letter to small-town New Hampshire. Unlike much of the plot...
...might also push you to be very candid and straightforward sexually. My interest in sexuality is well-known, but here I was supported by historical fact. The character of the girl, Ellis, is based on three Dutch women, one of whom was asked by the resistance to start an affair with a German officer, and did so, and then fell in love with him. So that was basically the start of the whole story. Then, of course, her sexuality was transformed into what you would call love...
...Psychotherapists tend to regard a lot of the research into dreaming as missing the point. Scientists, they say, can theorize all they like about dreaming's function and physiological underpinnings, but why dreams matter is their effect on the dreamer. The man contemplating an extramarital affair dreams of the dire consequences of having one. He awakens to feel not only exquisite relief that he was dreaming but determined to walk the line. If, as Solms believes, dreams spring from the motivational part of our brain at a time when other parts that inhibit us are off-line, "it follows that...
...inflated. Thirteen years ago, this was the site of a massacre of tens of thousands of Tutsi - many of them buried in a mass grave adjacent to the stadium. That dark chapter of Kibuye's history is obliquely addressed in one of tonight's movies, about a love affair between a Tutsi girl and a Hutu boy. And the audience laughs and cheers, raucously rooting for the couple...