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...speaks by its appearance of suffering and sorrow. The fence sags wearily, and the path leading to the front door last week lay buried under a foot-high pile of dead leaves. Yet the house is famous. It was purchased by the pioneer abstractionist Wassily Kandinsky and his onetime mistress, Gabriele Münter, in 1908. There, at the age of 84, Gabriele Münter still lives, an artist who is steadily gaining fame in her own right as one of the best of the German expressionists...
Exhumed & Examined. The legend of Marie Besnard began in the gossip mills of Loudun. Over the years, Marie and her husband Léon had inherited from relatives six houses, two farms, an inn and a café. Amid all this affluence, Léon invited his mistress, Loudun Postmistress Louise Pintou, to move in with him and his wife. But when it was whispered that Marie herself took a lover-a former German prisoner of war 30 years her junior-Léon apparently protested. Several days later, after becoming violently ill over lunch, Léon died; local...
BRATTLE: Thru Saturday: THE REST IS SILENCE, a mediocre attempt to re-create Hamlet in modern West Germany. Starts Sunday. Two Japanese films, THE MISTRESS (Dec. 17-19) and UTAMARO...
...Maids concerns two servants who play out a dream-game whenever their mistress is absent. In the game one emulates the Mistress and the other plays the trainbearer who finally kills her superior. Always killing characters behind their masks, Genet screams that he is taking revenge...
...Italy, it is written into the statute books. Under the Penal Code, a wife is subject to a year's imprisonment for adultery if she so much as kisses a man other than her spouse; a wandering husband, on the other hand, is free to keep a mistress if he does so discreetly-which, in Italian legal parlance, means not under the same roof as his wife. Last week, to the dismay of militant Italian feminists, 15 judges in Italy's highest court ruled for the double standard...