Word: boudoired
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...will be 80 next year, but France's premier romantic movie poet still has the industry and verve of a clever schoolboy--an honor student in the philosophy of the boudoir. In this delicious comedy a happily married bookseller (Marie Riviere) acts as matchmaker for her vintner friend (Beatrice Romand). Here is a film attentive to the generosity of friendship, the cruelty of courtship. As Riviere says, "I want all men to love me, especially those I don't love." But she, Romand and young ravisher Alexia Portal give viewers plenty to love. Modestly profound, Autumn Tale has the savor...
...guest rooms is this 1,925 square foot, 2-bedroom suite. The room has its own private dining room with a hand painted mural depicting 18th century Boston and a parlor that holds a baby grand piano and a private patio which looks out onto Public Garden. In the boudoir stands an elegant four poster bed trimmed with extravagant linens and a down filled comforter. The Presidential Suite also boasts a miniature garden, ceiling-high mirrors and an oversized sunken marble bathtub (large enough to accommodate a intern...
...course, no internet search fails to turn up some smut. The "noir" web search lead directly to the "Leather Fetish Consensual SM Magazine"-- boudoirnoir.com--featuring the Boudoir-Noir Online Cafe, where leather fetishists can talk shop to their consensual hearts' delight. This site, which has recorded over 388,000 hits to date, also features a bulletin board advertising important upcoming events; the Leather Leadership Conference next month in New York may be the next big step in the national leather community's fight for freedom...
...called A Band Apart, after Bande a Part (Band of Outsiders), the 1964 film about two hoods and a femme fatale that Jean-Luc Godard based on an American paperback novel. But where Godard used pulp fiction as an excuse to discuss the philosophy of the boulevards and the boudoir, Tarantino is true to the genre's moral muscularity; he's interested in the philosophy of the abattoir. His tough guys chat about life's iniquities and inequities, about hamburgers, the Bible, the ethics of foot massage, the perfidy of women...
...with the structure of a comedy of manners by affirming love and happy endings, they consistently undercut the same structure with theri realization of the futility of all sentiments, most especialy love. The film ends with all the participants coupled, but this highly conventional resolution, required in all classic boudoir farces, is shattered by the bursts of despair, contempt and naked pity throughout the film. Bergman explodes the structure of the comedy of manners from within...