Word: guiltridden
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Neither was the Monkey (Karen Black), the fulfillment of Portnoy's teen-age sex fantasies. But as the West Virginia coal miner's daughter who lusts after Portnoy's intellect with as much guiltridden fervor as Portnoy has for her body, Black offers the film's best performance. Her face has those interesting imperfections usually found in the faces of nameless actresses who play in such smokers a Hillbilly Heaven. She also seems to have a real feeling for hostile profanity, which is about as extreme her as one will find in a general-release movie...
LOOKING BACK OVER Vittorio De Sica's career is to uncover a list of contradictions; a brave man and great filmmaker, or a genius at political compromise and a mediocre director, even a matinee idol or consummate actor. During the post-World War II decade in a battered, guiltridden Italy, he was in the vanguard of the New Realism, and thereby a prominent figure under attack by his country's outraged government, clergy and film critics. In critical circles outside Italy, his cinematic results were considered brilliant (Shoeshine, 1946; Bicycle Thief, 1948; Umberto D, 1950); the ensuing wrath he incurred...
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