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Perew is leaving for the Far East, and we watch him try to pull one last manipulative ploy. He wants to saddle Lacey with his mistress, a promiscuous lush 14 years his senior who hangs out at a local pub called The Green Man. She is the unseen Julia of the title. Lacey refuses, but that scarcely settles the questions Playwright Ableman tantalizingly raises. Is Perew merely a heel trying to avoid emotional remorse? Is he, perhaps, more in love with Julia than he lets on, enough to want to soften the blow of his departure? Is it possible that...
...into a mistress I had during my last year at school," wrote the Parisian diarist Edmond de Goncourt in 1855, the year in which an unknown 14-year-old apprentice named Pierre Auguste Renoir sat painting flowers on teacups, 60 the dozen, in a china shop in Rue du Temple. "There were still girls like her in those days, girls with a little of the grisette left under their cashmere shawls...She was still the same girl, with the eyes I had loved, her little nose, the lips flat as if crushed by kisses, the supple figure...
...doubt Goncourt would have been pleased to find how durable this class of sexual object turned out to be. Pink and proletarian, tousled, complaisant and rather nitwitted, she persisted as the Ideal Mistress (counterpart to the Fatal Woman) well into the 20th century. Her ancestors are the nymphs of Boucher. Her descendant-spoiled by independence, but still embodying the fantasy of the naughty French chambermaid-is Brigitte Bardot...
...researcher, Athos Magnani (Giulio Brogi), is summoned to Tara by his slain father's mistress (Alida Valli). A statue of the senior Magnani, resting upon a pedestal bearing the legend "vilely murdered by Fascist bullets," stands in the town square, surveying all who pass with unformed, unchiseled eyes...
...director both are interested not so much in the act itself as in its effects. The measures taken to mask the incident become a paradigm of the process of myth. Bertolucci suggests the perpetual, inexorable influence of the past by the ingenious expedient of having the characters-the mistress, the father's comrades-look in flashback as they do in the present: the same age, the same aspect, even, at times, a suggestion of the same costume. It gives a disquieting, eerie sensation, like staring into a mirror and seeing everything save yourself decades younger...