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Rich and Famous condemns Bisset to a loverless existence. She has Bergen; but the film makes clear what a prize she is. Bisset and Ayres intend this film to be an affirmation of female friendship. Well, there should be a film affirming female friendship, but this is not it. Bisset's last statement that Merry "is the only flesh around"--the only human, that is--is heartbreakingly accurate. The people in the movie are so alone...
...charm to win her lover, follows her most savage instincts until, despairingly, she turns to God. The wrath of the devil-worshipers and then - the Quadroon Ball, graceful, gay at first, then bloody, riotous. M. Brusard and the lover from over the mountains are killed. Only Mugette is left, loverless, as completely, as inevitably alone as only her racial impurity could make her. So did Laurence Stallings conceive his share of Deep River,† told it sharply, brutally, profanely as would become a dramatist strange to the gentler art of libretting...
...Story. A loverless woman discovers her hero at dead of night passionately embracing her sister who has had many lovers. Behind that climatical night was the history of many dark things...
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