Word: tormentingly
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...cold beauty is on view-every single square centimeter of it-in two opulent and languidly erotic Italian films just released in the U.S. Curiously enough, not only does each production star Antonelli, but each is a turn-of-the-century costume drama dealing ironically with the torment of a philandering husband cuckolded by a young wife whom he assumes to be hopelessly frigid. Naturally, given these similarities, it is the differences between the films that are most interesting...
...there was a glimmer of hope that a side of the '50s which is hardly ever seen in films might actually be explored. But Bridges constantly refuses to take the Dean cultists seriously. The film follows a college student on the day Dean died, follows him through his torment over Dean's death which eventually leads him to leave school and his superficial friends. But on the way Bridges seems to keep insisting that, hey, didn't these people act foolish--he focuses on the superficial actions of the characters. His main character expresses his torment by driving...
There has been little torment and oppression in Huppert's own experience. She was the clever youngest daughter in a big, prosperous Parisian household, and her parents (her father is a manufacturer of safes, her mother an English teacher) were full of encouragement when she decided that she wanted to change her educational direction from Russian studies to acting. At 15, freckled, a bit chubby, with the look of a beauty five years before she would be beautiful, she had a small part in Faustine et le Bel Etc. Even then she was very much self-propelled...
...which an assassination is less of an affront to morality than a kidnaping. The great man is knifed. Revenge is accomplished or unholy ambition thwarted. This is only a rerun of Julius Caesar, without the blank verse. Long live, for a time, Brutus. With kidnaping, however, you have torment direct and referred−the waiting, the humiliation, the delivery of an earlobe, the blackmail that tempts us all to wish to compromise with justice and make a fool of the law. "Free those undoubted, or figurative, criminals or we kill this figurative, or undoubted, one." But once we give...
...mistress (Sonia Martinez), tries to explain to Scipio (Matthew Horseman), a sensitive and innocent friend of the young Roman emperor, why Caligula had his father's tongue torn from his mouth and then slain for no apparent reason. In an attempt to make Scipio empathize with the personal torment of Caligula and understand the motives behind his random, merciless acts of violence, Caesonia pulls Scipio close to her and whispers...