Word: sensualness
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...lush, exotic, sensual camerawork...
...Bosch's fifteenth century painting from which Saura takes his title, the film tries to step inside the allegory it sets up and give itself to a wide-eyed fascination with the workings of vice. Saura has learned from Bunuel, whom he openly imitates at times, how to use sensual indulgences to make an intellectual point. His method is to instruct by allowing participation- in a drowning fantasy, a hunting sequence, or in the grotesque rituals of over-acted sexuality...
...range panoramically from country rock to blues. Leon Russell, the presiding master of gospel rock, invokes the Lord Jesus with piano playing that has a touch of Fatha Hines and a voice that has a touch of bayou frog. Nashville's Kris Kristofferson, an ex-Rhodes scholar, sings bluntly sensual protest songs that have made him the most controversial country songwriter-singer of the day. Van Morrison, an Irishman late of Them, flavors his blues-gospel-folk broth with a salty pinch of jazz. In the wings are two virescent newcomers. One is Carole King, a soul blues singer...
...visual development, but to share the excitement of the Steins' creative vision we must see what they saw in the works, not just look at the works themselves. What we can only share in this show is the enthusiasm of the Paris scene, with Matisse's bright colors and sensual forms and Picasso's unlimited perceptions; we can't help but turn the corners on the Left Bank with the Steins as we go through the Luxembourg Gardens with its marionette shows and young girls basking in the sun or as we pass by windows with prolific flowers to sell...
...THOUGH we didn't see the emptiness and boredom beneath their smiles before, Cassavetes begins to make everything explicit. Celebration of the sensual turns into contempt. When we should feel pity, we feel disgust. At one point in an English gaming room, Archie finds himself with a repulsively ugly English society woman who won't let him walk away. The scene is utterly gratuitous, and Cassavetes is using the perversely banal to make cheap jokes. To present the underside of bourgeois respectability, he deliberately cultivates the unattractive...