Word: rape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...RAPE OF LOVE...
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...
According to the old common-law rule, a man who forces his wife to have sexual intercourse with him cannot be convicted of rape. The celebrated Rideout case in Salem, Ore., late last year resulted in the acquittal of Husband John accused of rape by his wife Greta. Attitudes are changing, however. Last week, in another Salem, in Massachusetts, James K. Chretien was convicted of raping his estranged wife Carmelina. He is believed to be the first American ever convicted of wife rape. Chretien was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Thomas R. Morse Jr. to three to five years...
...trial testimony, he burst into the couple's former home and dragged Mrs. Chretien upstairs to their old bedroom. In a similar case that went to trial in the same state more than a century ago, the husband was acquitted. There will undoubtedly be more wife vs. husband rape suits, particularly in Oregon, Nebraska, Delaware and New Jersey, which have all adopted statutes allowing a wife to press rape charges against her husband, even if they are living together...
Tavernier attempts to explore the concept of madness through Bouvier's experience as a social outcast yet the character is never clarified. Tavernier dredges up the usual socio-economic sludge but he leaves it unexplained; was Bouvier raped by monks, did the rabid dog truly bite him, was he mistreated in the hospital, was he even crazy before he shot Louise and put two bullets in his own head? These questions do not provoke thoughtful analysis into the very nature and definition of madness but rather confuse and eventually annoy the audience. If Bouvier was a lovable fool, dispensing wisdom...