Word: eroticizing
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Thankfully, Greer spares us a one-dimensional portrait of a strong, self-sufficient woman: she exposes Anne's vulnerabilities, too. She accepts that on some level Anne yearned for her husband and feared his infidelity. Anne knew, says Greer, that London streets "were full of whores, from the sleaziest to...
On a smaller but no less ambitious scale, Antonioni kept experimenting. He reunited with Vitti for The Mystery of Oberwald (1981), which used the new video technology to repaint forests, walls, gowns in an expert riot of surreal colors. He continued even after a 1985 stroke robbed him of speech...
But the film's real interest is in the iconographic pairing of the lovers. Argento is one of those severe, strong-featured women who exhales the toxic sexuality of a vixen painted by Goya. Aattou is a luscious, full-lipped, smooth-bodied satyr who could be Argento's prettier, more...
Breath. There are two Korean films among the 21 in competition for the Palme d'Or, and both have a scene in which an obsessive woman visits a killer in jail and expresses her sympathy for him. The first and lesser of the pair is from Kim Ki-duk, who...
Curiously, that's all right with us. His well-particularized people include a real estate salesman who vaguely lusts after his assistant, who is both a religious fanatic and, more secretively, an erotic dancer. She is drawn to a soulful bartender, whose insane father, heard but never seen, she tends...