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...woman whom he has found in the woods. Duvall gives an initial impression of such granite stoicism that it slightly unbalances an otherwise carefully modulated and intensely sympathetic performance. The script allows him to open up only toward the end of the film, when it is almost too late. Olga Bellin portrays the back-country madonna in a shrill regional accent that is undiluted Broadway Southern...
...personality. Cocteau's milieu absorbed him, and he became a social lion, resplendent in dinner jacket and red sash, surrounded by titled groupies. During this "bourgeois" phase of Picasso's life, he made a disastrous marriage to one of Diaghilev's dancers, a Russian girl named Olga Koklova. Picasso, as several of "his" women have made clear, was never an easy man to live with. As he put it bluntly to his later mistress Françoise Gilot, women are for him "either goddesses or doormats." (Picasso, not Mailer, is the century's monument of narcissism...
...Olga he picked exactly the wrong wife. She was pretty, inflexibly respectable and snobbish; she tried hard to reform Picasso's bohemian habits. His portraits of Olga when they were in love (32) are among the few completely insipid Picassos that exist. As the marriage disintegrated, the great figure paintings and still lifes (31, 36, 37) began alternating with a sequence of brutally distorted female heads. Woman's Head and Self-Portrait, 1929 (38) is nothing less than a pictorial act of revenge: the savage, angular profile of Olga, with its chisel teeth and spike tongue about...
...among other things, how he felt about his successive loves. In the early '30s, for instance, Picasso fell in love with a blonde Swiss girl named Marie-Thérèse Walter, 33 years younger than he. Marie-Thérèse-unlike the social-climbing Olga, who preceded her, and the sharply intelligent, gifted and nervous Dora Maar, who was her successor-presented no threat to him at all. She was a passive...
...Portrait of Olga in an Armchair-1917; 33. By the Sea-1920; 34. Three Women at the Spring-1921; 35. Sleeping Peasants-1919; 36. Three Dancers-1925; 37. Plaster Head and Limbs-1925; 38. Woman's Head and Self-Portrait-1929; 39. Bather Playing with a Ball-1932; 40. Girl Before a Mirror-1932; 41. Nude on a Black Couch-1932; 42. Weeping Woman-1937; 43. Still Life with Red Bull's Head-1938; 44. Woman with Green Hat-1939; 45. Night Fishing at Antibes-1939; 46. Cat Eating a Bird...