Word: sexual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BELLE DE JOUR. Ranging easily from anticlerical broadsides to highly polished pornography, this bizarre tale of the sexual fantasies of a beautiful young wife (Catherine Deneuve) makes a fitting capstone to the 40-year career of Spanish Director Luis Bufiuel...
...weeks, a Japanese poster drawing of a couple frolicking in sexual intercourse had been visible over much of southern Sweden, including the town of Lund. It heralded an 800-work display in Lund's museum entitled "First International Exhibition of Erotic Art." The nucleus of the show was drawn from the collection of Paris-based U.S. Sexologists Phyllis and Eberhard Kronhausen, who maintain that their interest in erotica is "part of our concern with mental health. We feel very strongly that sexuality is the great remaining pocket of cultural insanity...
...pasted together from past works. Old dogs doing old tricks is nostalgically acceptable from performers like Maurice Chevalier or Marlene Dietrich, but coolly and perhaps cruelly rejectable from major playwrights. With eloquence and gallantry, Williams introduced to U.S. drama the previously inadmissible evidence of the emotional outcast and the sexual invert and made the stage vibrate to the heartbeats of the violated and the vulnerable. Himself a masterly creator of characters, Williams could not confer that gift on his disciples. An entire secondary echelon of playwrights-men like William Inge, Robert Anderson and Paddy Chayefsky-became Freudian scholastics. They invented...
BELLE DE JOUR. This bizarre tale of the sexual fantasies of a young wife (Catherine Deneuve) is a fitting capstone to the 40-year career of Spanish Director Luis Buriuel as it ranges from anticlerical homilies to fetishist daydreams...
Marco Bellochio develops this theme using what may be the most complicated plot since La Ronde. Sexual liaisons develop as rapidly as the political alliances they are set against--Bellochio depicting both as equally passionate and equally insincere...