Word: incestousness
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Murmur of the Heart, Louis Malle's sensitive study of incest. Central II, 6, 9:55. With Accident, 8:05, weekend...
...Court Liar, a wretch who earns his wine by reciting absurdities about lands so cold that water turns hard and men's skins are white. He is quick, deadly; he kills two soldiers with a spear; the princess is fascinated; he unsettles her lewdly with suggestions of non-incest; he talks of dominion over all the king doms of the valley, and has the wit, while breaking tradition, to wrap him self in new myth; he is the quick, stinging Scorpion God. She is tempted. Egypt begins...
When Dory emerged from the hospital, she carried a sheaf of lyrics that turned out to be the beginning of a new career. They unmistakably expressed her own feelings: they told what it is like to lose your mind, to talk to imaginary people, to consider incest and suicide. Set to her own deceptively light tunes, sung in a breathy voice and gathered in an LP album titled On My Way to Where, they sold 25,000 copies. A second album followed, which doubled those sales. A third, just out, is selling even faster. Dory has written a musical about...
...film, we find him resurrected, perhaps 20 years later, and being worshipped by a group of deformed and grotesque people inside a cave. They have been imprisoned there by the people of a nearby town, so that the townspeople will not have to see the results of generations of incest...
...this point in the film, a middle-aged man across the aisle leaned in my direction and whispered authoritatively, "Excellent, excellent." He was pleased with Malle's treatment of incest, and with good reason. Murmur plays a traditionally tragic theme in a nostalgically comic key, and proves it can be done with perfect taste, intelligence, and close attention to fleeting emotion. If our notions of the destructive effects of the inevitable disillusionment and sexual confusion of adolescence are too much influenced by the Joyces, Lawrences, and Hesses of this world, then Malle gently insists that it doesn't have...