Word: whore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jean-Pierre Leaud plays Truffaut's autobiographical persona of The 400 Blows grown up-and he is great as he takes a variety of jobs in Paris and tries to romance with the boss' wife, a whore, and the proverbial girl-next-door. While Stolen Kisses is beautiful as a pure romantic ballad (the film unfolds within the context of the song "I Wish You Love"), Truffaut throws in enough wildly dissonant notes (the pathetic clients at the detective agency where Leaud works, the strange man who confesses love to the heroine at the end) to undermine one's hope...
ANGELA is a call-girl. She is not a $9 streetwalker hustling fifteen to twenty tricks a night on Columbus Ave., nor a $15-a-shot whore working the "combat zone" bars-Izzy Ort's Golden Nugget, the Novelty Bar, the Normandy Lounge, and the other establishments-that line lower Washington...