Word: lust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Purgatory is a dialogue between an illegitimate son and his insane father who finally kills the boy to keep him from reliving his own life of lust and murder. In portraying the "fat, greasy life." of which Yeats wrote, Michael Laurence and Ralph Russell act with unvarying intensity, robbing the short play of much of its potential impact. Every line is grossly shouted; there is no shading. As the father, Laurence is too noble--Yeats was not trying to write a tragedy of a noble man fallen, but a picture of a man groveling and depraved, even during his brief...
...families nibbled at the state farms, decollectivized an estimated six million acres. They hoarded the grain and refused to give it up to the commissars. At first they got away with it. Fearful of massive famine in the wake of war, the Kremlin temporized with the muzhik's lust for land that he could call his own. The Council of Ministers agreed to let the state farms be worked by family groups or by ex-soldiers, banded together in "links" of eight to ten men apiece. Many of the "linkers," explained one of them who escaped, "were peasant soldiers...
Following a path charted centuries ago by medieval scholastics, The Seven Deadly Sins slips deftly and incisively through the traditional septet of human failings: avarice, anger, sloth, lust, envy, gluttony and pride...
Three of them are serious in tone-lust, envy, and pride. Roberto Rossellini's Envy, based on a story from Collette, is a frightening study of a wife's insane jealousy of her husband's cat. Orfeo Tamburi gives a sensitive portrayal of the artist husband, while Andree Debar powerfully plays the sulking, possessive wife who brings to her marriage little more than her physical appeal...
...Lust, directed by Yves Allegret, is a penetrating look into early adolescence. A young girl, delicately played by Francette Vernillat, thinks her admiration and affection for an artist will cause her to bear a child. Director Allegret adds tremendous tension to the story by directorial touches such as focusing the camera on a run-down phonograph while the child's widowed mother and her lover are alone in an adjoining room...