Word: mistresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Empire seemed little more than mediocre itself. Critical consensus: had the elderly ladies of the Fémina jury been on their toes, they might have given Franchise the prize for her Illusionist (1951), the story of a young girl's love affair with her father's mistress...
...Mistress (Japanese). A beautifully Eastern view of the rise of a fallen woman, who struggles to submit to nature rather than to the Western way of struggling against...
...young Hungarian Communist gradually puts out the eye of his own conscience after he is told that one of his four closest friends and associates is a secret enemy of the state and must be ferreted out. Comrade Nemeth must choose between 1) his best friend. 2) his fiancee-mistress. 3) a religious-minded old spinster. 4) a battle-scarred party veteran. Feverish with party zeal. Nemeth first fingers the religious old lady as a "reactionary clericalist...
...with suspicion. Nemeth cannot be sure that the right head has fallen. An antiparty joke seals the fate of the old party fighter, and Nemeth sends his best friend to jail because his office accounts do not balance. Righteous as Robespierre. Nemeth finally convinces himself that his Russian-born mistress is really a White Russian and denounces her. The girl commits suicide, and for a moment-but a moment only-Comrade Nemeth sees himself for the monster he has become...
...Mistress (Japanese). A beautifully Eastern view of the rise of a fallen woman who struggles to submit to nature rather than to the Western way of struggling against...