Word: whore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MOTHER and the Whore can be seen as a very reactionary film that condemns contraception, abortion, and the dissolution of traditional values in general. Director Jean Eustache may intend to drag us through a murky decadence that has lost touch with even a sense of style until all it has left is ennui, automatic sex and hyper-self-consciousness. According to this view, the burden of the film is carried by the long, emotional monologue of a woman named Veronika (Francois Lebrun) who tells us that "the only time sex isn't sordid is when two people want to have...
...research prior to your article on Mr. Norman Ayrton [Crimson, March 20]. Mr. Ayrton is in fact the third visiting director of high caliber to visit the Loeb Drama Center since 1971. In 1971 Stuart Vaughan taught acting and produced "Tis Pity She's a Whore" with a student company on the Loeb Mainstage. Likewise in the Spring of 1972 Hal Scott also taught acting and his production of "Indians" is possibly the best piece of theatre seen at the Loeb in the past five years...
Love and Anarchy is not, however, a proletarian version of Day of the Jackal. It is equally about Tunin's being able to bring himself to commit this act of violence and about his love affair with a young whore (Lina Polito), who arouses and assuages him as the day of assassination draws closer. Tunin is no bold gunman. He is assaulted by fear, lulled by affection for the whore. It is never certain that he will be able to make his slightly mad attempt on Mussolini...
...real visual unity. It is lavishly lit by Giuseppe Rotunno (cinematographer also for Fellini and Visconti), but the camera seems to move almost haphazardly, framing the characters with less care than they are acted. Besides excellent performances by Gianinni and Polito, there is a feisty characterization of a queenly whore by Mariangela Melato...
...fetishists crave--and who has read Faulkner and is not in a small way a fetishist for facts about this mysterious man? Although I do not consider my own hero-worship of dead authors excessive, I did find it interesting that Faulkner patronized Aunt Rose Arnold's New Orleans whore-house at Chatres and Jackson Square. Similarly, Blotner's account of Faulkner's Hollywood years is as interesting as Time's "people" section...