Word: sidelong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does not notice. The most the movie concedes him is the possibility that by sorting through his many wrong assumptions about the essentially innocent man he was following, he may have taken a small step toward extricating himself from his deluding passion. But like everything else in this sidelong glance of a movie, that point is, at most, implied. He has a long road to travel before he finds the freedom to respond to life as Rohmer does-with a wry sigh. The director of such wittily profound films as My Night at Maud's, Claire's Knee...
...pitiful progress from resort to spa was followed by millions. All those awful photographs of the Duchess and the Duke, his skin scalded by flashbulbs, black ashtrays crowding the table like visas from a purgatorial kingdom of nightclubs: El Morocco, the Stork, the Lido. Those craterous eyes, staring off sidelong past the camera into the unforgiving background of history, which would soon reveal him as a dupe of fascism, an anti-Semite and a racist...