Word: sensuality
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Died. Mary Ure, 42, cerebral, icily sensual British actress; of an apparent heart attack; in London. She first won wide attention as the wellborn, ill-used wife of an acid-tongued lout in Look Back in Anger, the 1956 marital psychomelodrama by her first husband, Playwright John Osborne. She went on to give other strong performances in films (Sons and Lovers) and on stage (Duel of Angels, Old Times), sometimes co-starring with her second husband, Actor-Playwright Robert Shaw...
...elements shift and change, but the moving camera gives them continuity. Without a single cut, the scene lasts seven minutes and brings together all the elements in Locke's world. It would be unfair to tell exactly what happens, but watching Antonioni make it happen is a rare sensual pleasure. The Passenger is not a great film, but its very ambition is a reminder of how smug and easy most movies are, and how little they dare...
...aristocrats for their callous inhumanity to each other and their parasitic hold on a decadent way of life. At other times he drifts closer to the original message of the novel, that through the tutelage of this society Emmanuelle is receiving something that everyone is entitled to--a true "sensual awakening...
...terrific publicity campaign has turned Emmanuelle into a box office success rivalling that of Last Tango, by promising racy respectability ("X you can take your wife to") and a certain intellectual stimulation ("The most sensual part of your body is your mind). The poster earnestly assuages embarrassment and guilt, promising that "after the film is over you don't find yourself making a hasty departure while scrupulously avoiding eye contact." The great success of these ploys, along with the material opulence and glibly amoral tone of the film, is a clue to what the movie was meant to accomplish. Jaeckin...
...altogether lost with the French Revolution. Delacroix, whose painfully stiff early imitations of Rubens (like Henri IV Conferring the Regency on Marie de' Medici) are much to the fore in this show, was able in maturity to go back to his great prototype and produce such majestically sensual works as Turkish Women Bathing (1854), an outdoor seraglio, a blend of Venus garden and fete champetre. In the event, it was Rubens who saved classical mythology for the romantics by rescuing it from its scholarly imbrications. By the same token, he rescued historical allegory by giving it the unique straightforwardness...