Word: bride
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more coherent of the mul tiple story lines concerns Barnabas' quest for a bride. Since he comes out of his coffin home only after dark, he prefers supper dates, and six times has mixed his fatal business with pleasure. "The whole essence of my character," says Frid earnestly, "is guilt over my hang-up-vampirism-and my bites suffer. I envy the bites of the two other vampires. They are positively erotic...
...BRIDE WORE BLACK. Revenge is sweet, bitter, salty and sour in Francois Truffaut's poetic evocation of an idee fixe. Jeanne Moreau is the woman with the idee, and the men who killed her husband are the ones who get fixed in a series of alternately comic and eerie murders...
...countless other ways, tribalism has impeded African progress. Polygyny is still widely practiced throughout tribal Africa, as is the costly custom of buying a bride, which may mortgage a young man's income to his father-in-law for nearly his lifetime. And the bride price is going up with the times: every year a girl spends in school increases her value to otherwise detribalized young urban men eager for educated wives...
...BRIDE WORE BLACK. Revenge is sweet, bitter, salty and sour in François Truffaut's poetic evocation of an idée fixe. Jeanne Moreau is the woman with the idée, and the men who killed her husband are the ones who get fixed in a series of alternately comic and eerie murders...
...BRIDE WORE BLACK. François Truffaut pays a loving and witty tribute to Alfred Hitchcock as he spins the sardonic story of a widow (Jeanne Moreau) bent on wreaking bloody vengeance on her husband's killers...