Word: madams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Balcony. Jean Genet's allegory says that life is a bawdyhouse where men buy illusions at the price of their masculinity. Shelley Winters is the madam who knows what her customers want...
...Balcony. Part burlesque, part Black Mass, Jean Genet's shocker argues that the world is a vast brothel run by an allegorical madam who panders illusions to her customers in return for the surrender of their masculinity. Shelley Winters is the madam...
...Balcony. Jean Genet's shocker, part burlesque, part Black Mass, argues that the world is a vast brothel run by an allegorical madam who panders illusions to her customers in return for the surrender of their masculinity. Shelley Winters is the madam...
...most ferociously brilliant poet now at work in the French theater of the absurd. In The Balcony, a drama that resembles both a burlesque show and a Black Mass. Genet expounds his fantasies in a monstrous metaphor: the world is a vast brothel operated by an infernal, supernal, eternal Madam who sells her customers illusions in return for the surrender of their masculinity...
...film version of the play, produced in Hollywood for $200,000, is relentlessly funny, shaggy, shocking. A revolution is raging as the picture begins. Society is collapsing, but prostitution is undisturbed. "Sometimes as a theater, sometimes as a church." the Madam (Shelley Winters) proclaims, "this house will always be here." In the film the house is situated in a film studio, in a pavilion of illusions. One chamber is arranged as a hall of justice: in it an office worker, satanic in black robes, buys the illusion that he is a judge and cruelly extracts a confession of a prostitute...