Word: bohemianism
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...those afternoons, Chloe (ZouZou), former girlfriend of a former friend, visits him in his office, first begging for a job, then mounting a seductive siege upon him. Chloe is a rootless Bohemian who hops from one night club job to another with sophisticated promiscuity. Though Frederic disapproves of her life style, her availability during his empty afternoons subdues his initial queasiness. The rest of the movie becomes a teased out elaboration of the question, will Frederic or will he not sleep with Chloe? He sees her daily, wines and dines her, lies to his wife when he arranges his rendez...
ONCE AGAIN, this time with The Savage Messiah Ken Russell has reduced the art of biography to semi-porno voyeurism in Bohemian meller terms the least we might expect from biography is a token effort at vensimulitude. But Russell ransacks the facts and substitutes his hyped-up version of artistic truth in tasteless tribute to the life of Henri Gaudier Brzeska...
EARLY IN THE FILM, Gaudier Brzeska is chased by guards from the Louvre for indecent dress, an untucked shirttail. He cludes them to emerge sprawied stop a giant Negro sculpture, screaming with messianic fervor. "Art is alive! People have to be shocked into life!" At a Bohemian dinner Gaudier Brzeska's lack of restraint disgusts his pseudo-sophisticate hosts. An art dealer, Shaw baits him maliciously until his braggadaccio traps him into promising an exhibition of non-existent marble sculptures the following morning. So the irrepressible Gaudier Brzeska drags a simpering homosexual friend out of bed rushes to a cemetery...
From this point we follow Charles on his odyssey through the cracks and chinks of Geneva existence when he joins the somewhat enervating life of a Bohemian couple who take him in: in contrast to his seedy surrounding Tanner wants us to feel that Charles's perception and moral purity increase with each passing day. The contradiction is heightened by Charles's capture and internment in a mental hospital: as he understands more and more his society can tolerate him less and less...
...similarities are striking. Charles, the elderly owner of a consistently expanding watchmaking firm, finds himself suddenly filled with revulsion at his lifelong impulse to prosperity and bourgeois respectability. Much to the dismay of his still business-minded son, he disappears from home and takes up secluded residence with a bohemian artist, the artists wife and Charles's own daughter. Father and daughter take up the political education of their hosts, until Son finally catches up with Father, and Charles is taken off to a mental hospital...