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...what the Spanish call olla podrida, or rotten pot, a mess. His brutal father dies, literally, rabid. His imbecile brother, whose ears were chewed off by a hog, drowns in an oil vat. Rosario, his sister, is the only one Pascual even begins to love. She is a whore practically from puberty. His feelings for her are more than slightly incestuous. When her lover seduces Pascual's wife, Pascual kills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blood Hatred | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

...point, the lovers find themselves in a motel room. An unsavory relationship is being loudly consummated in the neighboring cabin, and Miss Hugueny gets upset. "Aren't you going to get a bottle? Isn't that what they do now?" she screams. "You think I'm a whore!" "You said it, I didn't," Fonda replies stupidly, and gets justifiably slapped. Latter, she asks tentatively, "What if I were pregnant?" and Fonda answers, "Get serious." What sensitivity...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: The Young Lovers | 11/12/1964 | See Source »

...just in time to get dressed for her wedding; 3) an impatient Lothario who checks into a motel and seduces the chambermaid while his peevish girl friend waits in the car; 4) a barkeep who saves carfare by hitching a ride home every night with a car-couching whore, hops out at his front door feeling cheap but chaste; 5) a ragman who waxes indignant when an elegant lady clad in a filmy black negligee ("Are you in mourning?") calls him up five flights, all for sex. This last fellow cooperates, naturally, but goes away grumbling over the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Roamin' Holiday | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

Then there's the de-aging sequence of Katyusha, the heroine, dissolving (like Orson Well's Mrs. Kane) from tough whore to well-bred ten-year-old. And Nekhlvudov, the hero, trudging the paths of a Siberian village--photographed with the flavor of Italian neo-realism. And many other cinematic "quotes" which are appropriate and effective, not the kind of private joke they seem to be with Truffaut and Godard, for example...

Author: By Paul Williams, | Title: Resurrection | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

...birthplace seeking revenge. She offers a fortune to Guellen and its citizens in exchange for the life of one man, now a local merchant, who seduced her when she was 17, left her pregnant and dishonored after hiring perjurers to testify to her lewdness. "The world made me a whore; now I will turn the world into a brothel," declares Madame Zachanassian. When the horrified villagers reject her offer, she smiles coolly: "I can wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Woman Wronged | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

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