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Murmur of the Heart. This week I run the risk of discrediting myself with superlatives. Louis Malle's Souffle de Coeur is one of the funniest films ever made, and certainly the Funniest Film About Incest ever made. It captures French bourgeois life with the accuracy of a Palestinian guerrilla looking for hostages. The spinach throwing scene is the best piece of cinematic slapstick since Chaplin. The subtler pieces are all there too: the way the mother, for example, sits down on the bed in the hotel room before agreeing to take the room is a gesture peculiar...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: THE SCREEN | 12/11/1975 | See Source »

...mamzer (generally, a person born as a result of incest or a liaison between a married woman and someone other than her husband) can marry only another mamzer or a convert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Israel's Blacklist | 10/20/1975 | See Source »

...closet. With questionable taste, he also hoped to make it "entertaining." The result is this slick, ambiguous thriller. Hans Pikola, 50-year-old world-weary photographer turned hit man, stalks the even more world-weary war criminal, Karl Boettcher. The motive, revealed through flashbacks, provides romantic interest, undertones of incest-plus a gloss of social commentary in the form of industrial conspiracy in a Krupp-like organization. Result: a first novel that is already a bestseller in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 10/20/1975 | See Source »

...Fullerton, who seems to have been irresistible to both sexes, later hinted that he taught a very willing partner his many tricks. Edith was never again shy about sex. In her old age she even tried her hand at writing pornography in a never published story of father-daughter incest entitled Beatrice Palmato...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Popping the Stays | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...have scarcely settled into our seats before Falconhurst's Young Massah is venturing across the color line to find true sexual happiness. Floggings, hangings, slave auctions and gory combats follow in quick succession. There are sadistic assaults on prepubescent black girls and a good deal of bother about incest. James Mason, as the plantation's Old Massah, must spend much time with his bare feet pressed into a prostrate black child's naked stomach because the doctor has assured the old man that this is a sovereign cure for his rheumatism. In the end all the white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cold, Cold Ground | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

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