Word: lumpishly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Andre Cayatte (Tomorrow Is My Turn) has derived a lumpish film from it. Love Story would appear to be another inspiration. The lovers in To Die of Love smooch, swoon and suffer with a fervor that would bring a blush of recognition to Jenny Cavilleri's wan cheek...
...Communists who jostle Marcello in the last scene are intended to suggest "the wave of the future." But that symbol, juxtaposed with the homosexuality episode, creates confusion where there should be revelation, and will leave audiences more or less where it leaves Marcello: nowhere. There is some other rather lumpish and facile symbolism throughout the film that Bertolucci's virtuosity can only partially disguise...
...little old roll in de hay." She begins a passionate "sex thing" with a surly, sarcastic, sadistic writer who taunts her and lusts after her with equal ferocity. After one such session, when the writer (Frank Langella) has roughed her up pretty badly, Tina screeches the kind of lumpish epiphany so typical of Mrs. Perry's scripts: "You're sick! Sick! You have to put on that big virile act because you're really a fag." She returns to Jonathan who humbles himself before her, and there is a hint of -as Mrs. Worth might...