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...some draperies, a few pastel pillows and a lot of dope. Into this heady atmosphere comes a hood on the lam (James Fox) who rents the downstairs room as a hideout. The hood corrupts the singer, the singer corrupts the hood, and the two handmaidens (Anita Pallenberg and Michele Breton) just hang around, giggling a lot and getting into bed and king-sized bathtubs with anyone available. The film, which pretends to have something more or less profound to say about exchanges of identity and loosening of moral fiber, alternates between incomprehensible chichi and flatulent boredom. Donald Cammell, the writer...
Immanent Abstraction. "I don't create women," he once snapped at a critic. "I paint pictures." It sounded like an aphorism. What it meant to Matisse is suggested by his very early (1896), very realistic portrait of a Breton girl. She is subdued, even sallow, but curiously taking: look carefully at the painting, then look away, and all that remains in the mind is the simple shape of face, with eyes and mouth burned in. The human, for Matisse, could be contorted, abstracted, reduced to geometry and architecture and decoration, but without losing particularity. When Matisse succeeded, his human...
...HAVE been inundated by biographies and memoirs; Hemingway's Moveable Feast. the interminable studies of Joyce's Paris years, the histories of manic Surealists like Breton or Michel Leiris. If the Diaries belong to this tradition, still their achievement is in something more: the unearthing of a sensibility diminished by the wracking crises of the years between 1939 and 1944, and yet able to go on. Anais Nin's shared preoccupations with psychoanalysis pervade the entries in this volume; Otto Rank appears in the beginning pages as the mysterious influence he was in Nin's life, but by this time...
...Besret, a tall, Rome-trained doctor of theology, encouraged his monks to mix with people in the bistros and shops of neighboring villages. At monastery masses, the traditional Host was replaced with crusty Breton bread passed around in baskets. "We have no right to do something simply because it is written in a book," Dom Besret explained. "It must be true to life. Otherwise, it's only theater...
...young maverick made the most of the opportunity. He let his playful brush and imagination run rampant over walls, doors and ceilings. By the time Ernst was finished, he had transformed the small stone villa into a uniquely hallucinatory backdrop, hi these surroundings, the founders of Surrealism-Andre Breton, Louis Aragon, Andre Masson, Michel Leiris, Robert Desnos and, of course, the Eluards-met and dreamed aloud the bizarre fantasies that would reshape much 20th century...