Word: theus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Soon after rejoining his friends, Angelo decides to return alone to Italy, only to discover that the border has been closed off for fear of the cholera. He also meets the young woman who helped him, whom, we do not learn until much later, is called Pauline de Theus, and is the wife of a marquis. He assists her in crossing the border, and insists on riding with her as guide and protector. As the two journey on together they build a curious kind of relationship, which never develops into intimacy since each quickly encounters a quality of deep reserve...
...each haunted by outside characters--his mother and her husband--who dominate their actions and whose unseen presences constantly stand between them. But for all his references to her, we never get to see, let alone know, Angelo's mother, and we learn very little about the Marquis de Theus. The relationship between the two characters we actually see is the strongest part of the movie, in what it leaves unsaid--the silent bond between them, and the growing sexual tension which Angelo refuses to confront...