Word: bordereau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moldering Venetian palazzo in the late 19th century sit two desiccated women. Miss Bordereau (Franchise Rosay) is 100 or so and has wrung life dry; her old-maid niece. Miss Tina (Wendy Hiller), has had life squeezed out of her. In swirls a worldly dandy, Henry Jarvis...
...Maurice Evans), a publisher and a cultish worshiper of a long-dead American Byron named Jeffrey Aspern, whose mistress Miss Bordereau once was. Jarvis is avid for literary mementoes-the Aspern papers. He coaxes Miss Tina to be his ally, in terms that seize her poor fluttery soul with a fantasy of love. Upon Miss Bordereau's sudden death, Miss Tina, tormented into boldness, names a price for the papers too devastatingly high for Jarvis to pay-marriage...
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