Word: urbain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fancies. And it made as offensive, though visually awesome, film. With "The Music Lovers," a biography of Peter Tchak ovsky, Russell's glory, felling reached operatic heights that could at least balance out the ludicrous hamminess and involuted romanticism of his film. In The Devils, the case of Father Urbain Grandier burned at the stake in 1634 for bewitching the Ursuline nuns of London, Russell's cinematic extravagance came to border on pathology. The film was a festival in debauchery, horror, perversion, and sadism...
Doris Lessing (Banfam) St. Urbain 's Horseman by Mordecai
...Russell's film script is based on both Aldous Huxley's sardonic history The Devils of Loudun and a play by John Whiting. It presents the Jesuit Father Urbain Grandier (Oliver Reed) as a sexually profligate and politically dangerous priest who threatens the intricate schemes of the insatiable Cardinal Richelieu. To gain control of the walled city of Loudun-thus crushing a steadfast fortress of independence in France -Richelieu and his minions engineer a trial at which Grandier stands accused of inducing hysteria in a convent of Ursuline nuns...
...URBAIN'S HORSEMAN by Mordecai Richler. 467 pages. Knopf...
...with unflagging scatological zest and a deadly, unsparing eye. At the London film colony's weekly softball game, the players' first wives come to jeer, and the scores and strikeouts have more to do with careers and sex than with the game. On Montreal's St. Urbain Street, while sitting in mourning for Jake's father, friends and relatives pass around vulgarities and insults along with the cake. Canadian intellectuals are "reared to believe in the cultural thinness of their own blood. Anemia is their heritage." In gum-gray England, the upper classes are "unaggressively handsome...