Word: kovac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through a bedroom door, naked, giddily squirting a watergun at a cowboy costumed Jessica. Tear-streaked, she burns her beauty aids with funereal ceremony, mourns her Maybelline in the sand, and ends by chopping her hair off with distraught, mechanical motions. Why is unexplained, lost somewhere in between Lazlo Kovac's dazzling photography and Rafelson's shortcutting. Understatement has degenerated into amorphousness. And Sally's final hysteria is just a sheen of sensationalism polishing off Rafelson's neat surface...
...David Kovac (Elliott Gould) is an American archaeologist born in Germany and educated in Israel, who has learned a good deal about the past and almost nothing of his own psyche. He is alternately childish and brutal, contemptuous and suffocatingly possessive. He tells Karin shortly after their first meeting that he is in love with her. She is frightened but flattered. She visits him at his apartment, but that afternoon he is impotent. Later he has her for the first time by abusing and almost raping...
...Bergman continually emphasizes the changes in Karin and David through the developing parallels between them. She first meets him in a hospital, moments after the death of her mother; some time afterward the lovers spend an afternoon looking through a family photo album, and Kovac speaks rather too fondly of his own dead mother. Karin responds equally to the tenderness and humiliation he lavishes...
...Paralysis. One day Kovac brings Karin to his excavation to show off his prize, a centuries-old madonna, which is being consumed from within by mysterious insects that had lain dormant for 500 years and revived only when the figure was brought up from underground. It is an obvious and not especially felicitous metaphor for Karin herself. When the lovers finally part and Karin desperately pursues David to London, she meets his sister, a cripple suffering from an unnamed muscular paralysis, which she claims to share with her brother. Karin reacts to this as if it were a kind...