Word: mistressing
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...practical considerations are of no account in movies like this, which never bear the slightest resemblance to any known reality. Ostensibly this one is about Jack (Gary Oldman), a rogue cop with a nice wife (Annabella Sciorra), an eager mistress (Juliette Lewis) and a profitable sideline in helping the Mafia locate apostates who think they've found safety in the witness- protection program. But the Mafia don (a wildly miscast Roy Scheider) has given Jack a sort of promotion: he's entrusted with actually putting the hit on Mona, who, naturally, deploys all her sexual cunning to evade her fate...
...earnestly, self-consciously -- a movie for grown-ups. It is made by veteran adults (director Mark Rydell; writers Marshall Brickman and David Rayfiel). It takes up a "mature" (if not exactly original) theme, that of a man torn between the responsibilities of marriage and the delights of a young mistress. It comes to an ending that is both tragic and neatly ironic. And it is a movie that does not for one minute draw you into its life, make you believe in its reality...
...apparently gliding through life, Irene can juggle the affections of a businessman husband (Richard Bohringer) and a lover (Samuel Labarthe) who is in the Resistance. Sophie, a promising pianist, is pleased to be Irene's accompanist and maid; she serves tea, irons, watches, tries to keep secrets. Servant and mistress, darkness and light -- why, the two women might be in different movies...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Les Diaboliques" at 5:30 p.m. Atyrannical schoolmaster bumped off by hislong-suffering wife and her mistress, who learnonly too soon that they have botched...
...city to another. Longtime fans would be abandoned in the free market quest for profits." Good going, Senate. Thanks to that other bill you passed, my favorite team is going to become the Guadalupe Phillies. And George Steinbrenner is going to buy my younger brother to be his mistress. Wait. I mean--oh, save me, Peninsula...