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...book begins in France with lovely renderings of rooftops, caf?s and the people he meets. But in the margins the text reveals an undercurrent of loneliness and anxiety. Slowly you catch on that the tour comes on the heels of a major breakup and that someone, presumably his ex-lover, has become seriously ill back in the States. (The details stay frustratingly obtuse.) In spite of this Thompson continues on to Marrakech, alone. His three weeks in North Africa result in complex portraits of both the place and of Thompson's state of mind. His impressive drawings reveal the beauty...
READING | The Turkish Lover...
...outdoors. Our hearts would race through the Eamon’s emotions receiving the phone call in the recording studio revealing his girlfriend’s infidelity (“You even gave him head,” Eamon rails to the song’s ex-lover), reflecting on the relationship’s good times (“I even said you were my number one”) and confronting his cheating lover in a Bronx pizzeria, at one point forcefully thrusting the pizza off the table belting out the following unforgettable chorus: “Fuck...
Campbell bares all in the film. We see her masturbating in the shower, cruising numerous men while on a walk with a sketchy Columbia professor (played by Toback himself), having sex with her boyfriend and videotaping a charged encounter with a female lover. To Toback, the sexual energy of the character is necessary to establish her as a woman at a stage in her life in which her sexual proclivities are pushed to the forefront of her developing emotional maturity. At times the film plays like a kind of realist La Dolce Vita, showing a woman so lax and free...
...shrink (Kelly Chen), an ex-girlfriend and a young daughter. At the center, though, is the wary dance of Yan and Ming, each man serving two masters, each character luring the viewer to sympathize with his charade and hope that somehow both can survive. Leung, who played the warrior-lover in Hero, and Lau, Hong Kong's top pop star and movie magnet, are terrific as smart men, ruthlessly loyal, feeling the nooses tighten and trying not to make the small mistakes that could prove fatal...