Word: amity
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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Anticlerical Novelist Roger Peyrefitte scandalized postwar France in 1945 with Les Amitiés Particulières, the story of a homosexual love affair between two boys in a Roman Catholic boarding school. As filmed by French Director Jean Delannoy, This Special Friendship turns out to be both poignant and disturbing. Its impact depends not on lubricity-the schoolboy crush at the center of the story is idealistic and unconsummated. It is based on Delannoy's deft projection of the human agony behind the cry of St. Paul: "For the good that I would...
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