Word: nell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Early in this well-intended and very earnest movie, the heroine, Nicole (Nathalie Nell), is proceeding peacefully along a country road at twilight. Abruptly she is pushed from her motorbike by one of the occupants of a closed van, abducted to a lonely place and then raped by all four of the men in the truck. This scene is long and harrowing, brutal and humiliating, and feminist Director Bellon does not blink at showing us, in excruciating detail, every moment of Nicole's ordeal. Indeed, one comes to admire the fortitude of Actress Nell in playing a scene that...
Despite a delicate performance throughout by Nell, despite the fine quality of Bellon's work at the technical level, the film is finally smothered under the weight of these feminist bromides. One leaves wondering if, in fact, there is any thing original or illuminating left to say about the causes and consequences of rape, whether it is now possible to go be yond talk-show rhetoric. It seems ironic that all one can honestly praise in this movie is its powerful depiction of the crime itself rather than its insights into a world where rape is a tragic commonplace...
What if Little Nell doesn't die? What if nothing much happens to her? Nell had better be unusually charming, that's what. The feeling here is that Peppermint Soda, a film about an uneventful year in the life of two young Parisian sisters, wavers back and forth across an awkward boundary: sometimes it is just barely charming enough, and sometimes it almost charms, but not quite...
...pour your own milk) or iced coffee (no ice). Experienced guests use the duplex technique of placing larger items over smaller, thus concealing the true dimensions of the load. During the afternoon, dozens of tea plates and spoons will be slipped into handbags as souvenirs. All done with gentility. Nell Jolliffe, who was awarded the Royal Victorian medal last month for her 58 years of dishing tea at garden parties, shared an insider's nugget: the royals have a special teapot and different tea from the serviceable Indian leaf poured for the rest...