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Word: contextless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1976-1976
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...shown aunt-nephew incest side by side with sadomasochistic monks and nuns in a French country inn, or when we see an elaborate fantasy in which people at a formal dinner sit about publicly on toilets and retire to a dark stall to eat, these are simply contextless bits whose crudity is a far cry from, say, Bunuel's brilliant portrait of the country landlord who forced Jeanne Moreau to parade about in his dead wife's shoes while reading to him from Huysman's decadent novel Against Nature in Diary of a Chambermaid...

Author: By Peter Kaplan and Jonathan Zeitlin, S | Title: Film | 5/28/1976 | See Source »

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