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David G. Corlette’s lighting design heightens the sense of isolation among the characters, especially at subtle moments like Dion’s sleeping daughter (Jelena Pejkovic ’03) or Margaret abandoned in a corner far upstage while Dion dallies with his mistress (in a disappointingly brief appearance by the charming Kate A. Agresta ’02). Lighting shifts also add the little touches that provide some memorable visual effects, such as the television flickering to life in the living room or illuminating a pathetic, rejected Billy trapped inside a suspended telephone booth...
...aspiring actress whom the Outback had basically turned into a sex-starved savage. She had waded in and taken over, but she ruled irritatingly and her subjects rebelled. All her old clique had been voted off, like Mitchell, or sidled away, like Colby. Amber, ever loyal, sent off her mistress with an honorable Elisabeth vote, but right now she's gotta be grateful she's been blending into the scenery for weeks...
...Zhao, the first film directed by the cinematographer Lu Yue, uses the improvised style of U.S. Method-man John Cassavetes to tell the story of a philanderer caught between a jealous wife and a demanding mistress. Will he leave the one for the other? He doesn't want to decide; he's a practiced evader. What's clear is that his wife plays the role of the exasperated mother, his mistress the role of the spoiled daughter. Eventually we learn that he has another woman in his battered heart; this small film packs a final emotional wallop...
...Heraclitus knew that the things we might prize on the way up have no value when you're on the way down. And vice-versa. Has a movie star ever rebuffed publicity when he or she was on the way up? Madonna, now the mistress of privacy, posed in the buff on Sunset Boulevard when she was the princess of publicity. A few months ago, she wouldn't even pose in her white wedding dress...
...dungeon, the candles are low and the requiem has run its course. "How much have you needed this?" the mistress asks. "Very much," groans the man in the thong, and they laugh together like friends. They are obviously close. "We've had sessions when we've cried at the end," the dominatrix recalls...