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Word: filmlets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1962-1962
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...third filmlet concerns one Gabrielle Fenayrou, who, while never bloodying her pretty hands, was the muse for two murderers. Gabrielle lives with a gouty old husband and keeps a handsome young lover. One afternoon while tangoing (the year is 1913), he tells her he is betrothed to another-but, with true Gallic practicality, assures her that this need not interrupt their dalliance for a moment. Gabrielle, combining sang-froid with S. Freud, goes along with this, and together they plot to kill her husband. But the lover's pistol only clicks, and the husband shoots him instead. Gabrielle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Four Bodings | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

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