Word: claustral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slightly higher plane, one cannot help admiring Samperi's creation of a claustral atmosphere that makes believable both the boy's fetid sexuality and the girl's inability to escape his trap without destroying herself and his father. That she finally manages to do so, by reversing their roles, is also accomplished without suspension of belief. It even seems rather courageous and psychologically acute...