Word: sensualism
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...years ago, American audiences had their first encounter with sensual, enigmatic French Actress Fanny Ardant, 32, in Francois Truffaut's The Woman Next Door. But European directors suddenly all seem to be Ardant fans. Though little more than a pretty face in French theater and television three years ago, she has recently starred in a new movie for Alain Resnais, has done a second one with Truffaut, and has two more in the works. Last week she finished filming Benvenuta in Belgium, and next week in Italy she starts Sun and Night. Not bad for a relative newcomer...
Meanwhile, Clarisse's husband is enduring an emotionless affair with a vapid starlet, while the sensual diva leads on a young gigolo who ultimately kills himself over his love for her. The subplots enthrall, but all fade away as Clarisse's and Julien's love reaches its promising resolution...
Presence is a manifesto, a plea to place more value on the people and landscape surrounding us. Williamson has mastered the art of slipping from the general to the specific and sensual, from the simple to the lofty and complex. He sets forth his quest in "Progress of the Soul," an abstracted story of how we move through life: You are in a room, empty and white, and in it you must hallucinate colors...
...bait in Kurtz's plan is Charmian (called Charlie), an English actress whose haphazardly radical political involvements qualify her (á la Vanessa Redgrave) for the role Kurtz wants her to play. She is the rebellious middle-class type who could very well be swept away by a sensual young Palestinian and his burning desire to regain his homeland. Kurtz assigns Becker, an aging but still handsome Israeli war hero, to recruit Charlie and then teach her how to act in "the theater of deeds." A fictitious love affair must be fabricated between Charlie and the younger brother, whom...
...when Pamela Sousa as Cassie dances with the company, they fade from view. Although her voice strains when belting out the powerful "Music and the Mirror," on the dance floor Sousa is music itself. She explodes with energy and spirit and handles the difficult transition from fast jazz to sensual, seductive contortion with astounding grace. Surprisingly, Sousa is only an understudy for the regular Cassie, Angelique...