Word: mistressing
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...their first lovers, or their realizations of independence. The initially bland facades of each woman fall away. Every one of them has had her secrets. Grace, the menopausal housewife who is lost without her children, turns out to have been a literature student, a poet and her professor's mistress. Each woman ends her coming of age story by telling of the rift with her parents. Each woman in turn states, "I had no place to go." We see that coming into one's own necessarily involves being alone. In fact, the first act ends with the actresses joining...
...close observer" of people, a spy -- or novelist -- without a cause. In this instance his eye is trained largely on a glamorous slice of the "English leisure class": a jet-setting arms dealer, Dicky Roper, who is charming enough to be a Cabinet minister; his young plaything of a mistress; and such attendants as Sandy Langbourne, a sulky, beautiful, ponytailed lord with a gift for extermination...
...decades she has told no one, not even her other children, and she cannot bring herself to tell Caldwell's character at the moment when it would most comfort both of them. She does at last acknowledge the undiagnosed lump growing in her breast and the not-so-secret mistress installed by her husband in a pricey condominium. The play is about the women's coping, not their chaos...
...BOTTOM LINE: Masters -- and a mistress -- demonstrate the genre's range...
...title role is played by the radiantly sullen Gong, who has starred in all of Zhang's features and who was declared best actress at last year's Venice Film Festival for this portrayal. As Qiu Ju or Ju Dou, as the bride in Red Sorghum or the balky mistress in Red Lantern, Gong has brought life and body to the director's ethereal cinema style. The Story of Qiu Ju relies even more on her personality than the team's earlier films. There Gong was swathed in luscious silks and period exoticism; here, in a glamourless contemporary role...