Word: whoring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pursuing him to Halifax in 1863, Adele became a woman possessed. At first she claimed to be Pinson's cousin. Then, finding him, she begged and threatened, even offered him money to pay his debts. She stalked him on rendezvous with other women, sent him a whore for the night as a gift of her love, dressed as a man in evening clothes to track him down at a fancy ball, wrecked his engagement to another woman. During this time she endured hysterical nightmares of Leopoldine's drowning. She kept Leopoldine's jewels...
...17th century might have knelt before the reliquary of Mary Magdalene's foot in the church of Sts. Celsus and Julian. To him it would have been an object dense in its reality and hallowed in association: one of the actual feet that propelled the repentant whore of Judea to her meeting with the Saviour, a direct link across a vaguely understood gulf of time to a crucial mythic event. Its apparent value as evidence was large...
...very effective work. The courtyard's population, for example, is a very predictable one. David's mother is long-suffering, the neighbors familiar stereotypes from a hundred warm-spirited recollections of ghetto life−a scholarly revolutionist, a troublemaking yenta, a feisty and good-spirited whore. The minute we meet them, we can call the turns they will eventually do, just as we know, almost from the film's first minute, that Grandfather will die before it ends...
...Mother and the Whore, 8 p.m., weekend showing at 4:10 p.m. (through Sunday...
...Mother and the Whore. A little-known masterpiece that deserves to be seen. Jean Eustache has turned trivial and quotidian dialogue into a powerful commentary on deep and diverse issues. Four hours long but worth every minute. Jean Pierre Leaud is even better here that he is in Truffaut's mold. One of the most thought-provoking films of recent years...