Word: eroticized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lit crits, those old prunes, scratched their high foreheads at the success of Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County. This tale of middle-age passion -- in which a roving photographer, Robert Kincaid, has a volcanic three-day affair with Francesca Johnson, an Italian woman who has lived...
What's left is a brooding romantic fantasy. As scripted by Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King), the Madison County movie has a slightly riper theme than the book's. It is about the anticipation and consequences of passion-the slow dance of appraisal, of waiting to make a move that...
Except for a few false notes in the beginning, "The Perez Family" is a superlative work, profoundly funny, erotic and insightful, with a trace of melancholy that wafts through the film like Juan's Proustian memories of a day at the beach in pre-Castro Cuba. I can't remember...
John Butler's choreography is innovative and intelligent, examining the theme of the piece with segments representing sensual pleasure, fear, and remorse and movements mimicking erotic dance and guilty flagellation.
Gender roles are examined throughout the piece which is danced to John "Mighty Mouth" Moschitta's spoken synopsis of "A Streetcar Named Desire," John Lee Hooker's "Smoky Joe's Cafe," and a Jimi Hendrix song, among others. The movement is jerky, yet sensual, an erotic power struggle whose attitude...