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<title><![CDATA[Belle de Jour. Luis Buñuel, 1966]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Belle de jour (1967) Cut 4]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Aquí estamos ante un juego erótico de necrofilia con la ¿ingenua? actitud de Séverine. Otra vez más,]]></description>
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<strong>Aquí estamos ante un juego erótico  de necrofilia con la ¿ingenua? actitud de Séverine.</strong><br />
<strong>Otra vez más, la mirada de Buñuel nos lleva desde la sonrisa a la admiración.</strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Belle de jour (1967) Cut 3]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Las fantasías de Séverine (Catherine Deneuve) y la virtud mezcladas con la mancha del &#8220;pecado]]></description>
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<strong>Las fantasías de Séverine (Catherine Deneuve) y la virtud mezcladas con la mancha del &#8220;pecado&#8221; del erotismo.</strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Belle de jour (1967) Cut 2]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[¿Es todo el film una fantasía imaginada por Severine o es la realidad?]]></description>
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<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>¿Es todo el film una fantasía imaginada por Severine o es la realidad?</strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Confira os vampiros mais famosos da literatura e do cinema]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Melissa Rocha</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Confira os vampiros mais famosos da literatura e do cinema Arquivo/AE sábado, 14 de novembro de 2009]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Confira os vampiros mais famosos da literatura e do cinema</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Arquivo/AE</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">sábado, 14 de novembro de 2009, 13:48</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">SÃO PAULO - Veja lista dos vampiros mais famosos da literatura e do cinema.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Conde Drácula</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">O mais famoso vampiro cinematográfico de todos os tempos foi inspirado no personagem central da obra de Bram Stoker. Vários atores ficaram famosos com este papel no cinema, como Maximiliam Schrek, no clássico do cinema mudo &#8220;Nosferatu, uma Sinfonia de Horror&#8221;, de 1922. Até hoje, muitas pessoas acreditam que Schrek era mesmo um vampiro na vida real! Bela Lugosi, ator de origem húngara, foi o primeiro a imprimir garbo e elegância ao vampiro, marcando para sempre a imagem do personagem. Depois de Lugosi, Christopher Lee representou Drácula em mais de uma dezena de produções, sempre com total aprovação do público. Mais recentemente, Gary Oldman também entrou para este rol sinistro com a brilhante atuação em &#8216;Drácula de Bram Stoker&#8217;, dirigido pelo consagrado Francis Ford Coppola.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Lestat de Lioncourt</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">&#8220;Eu quero interferir nas coisas, fazer as coisas acontecerem!&#8221;. Este é o lema do vampiro mais famoso da literatura depois de Drácula: o sedutor Lestat de Lioncourt, narrador de quatro livros das &#8220;Crônicas Vampirescas&#8221; de Anne Rice. Nos cinemas, o personagem foi imortalizado por Tom Cruise em &#8220;Entrevista com o Vampiro&#8221;, de 1994. Lestat foi mordido ainda adolescente por Magnus, um vampiro de 300 anos, que se autodestruiu logo depois. Com isso, os poderes seculares da criatura passaram para o rapaz, e também toda sua fortuna. Apaixonado pelo jovem Louis, ele resolveu vampirizá-lo, assim como a menina Claudia. Entretanto, Lestat foi traído pelos pupilos e quase foi destruído. Séculos depois, resolveu contar a um jornalista toda a sua história, para transformá-la num livro. Nos dias de hoje, o egocêntrico Lestat decidiu se tornar uma estrela do Rock, na história que também foi levada às telas do cinema com o título de &#8220;A Rainha dos Condenados&#8221;.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Louis</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Louis du Pontlac é descrito por Anne Rice, sua criadora, como um vampiro bastante suave, de cabelos negros e face inexpressiva, exceto pelos brilhantes olhos verdes&#8230; No cinema, o super galã Brad Pitt deu vida ao narrador da &#8220;Entrevista com o Vampiro&#8221;, que foi vampirizado por Lestat (Tom Cruise) aos 25 anos, depois de uma tragédia. A família de Louis prosperava com as plantações de algodão em Nova Orleans, até que seu adorado irmão mais novo veio a falecer. Louis ficou doente e se tornou uma vítima fácil para o apaixonado Lestat. Ao contrário deste, o jovem Pontlac é um vampiro contemplativo, um intelectual desesperançado em busca de respostas para sua condição maldita. Justamente por isso, o experiente Armand (Antonio Banderas), ao conhecê-lo, afirmou que Louis era o Vampiro mais fraco que ainda caminhava sobre a face da Terra&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Vlad</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Em julho de 1991, o público brasileiro conheceu o terrível Conde Vladimir Polanski, um Vampiro que marcou época na televisão brasileira. Interpretado por Ney Latorraca, Vlad era o maior dos vilões da novela &#8220;Vamp&#8221;, escrita por Antônio Calmon e dirigida por Jorge Fernando, um dos maiores sucessos entre os jovens brasileiros. Na história, a cantora de rock Natasha (vivida por Cláudia Ohana) vende sua alma ao terrível Vampiro para conquistar um lugar no estrelato. Arrependida, a Vampira procura abrigo na cidade de Armação dos Anjos, onde acaba sendo perseguida pelo cruel Vlad. A atuação de Latorraca garantiu ao sarcástico Vladimir Polanski um lugar de destaque no rol dos vilões mais carismáticos da teledramaturgia brasileira, imortalizando bordões como o infantilizado &#8220;Gotooooso!&#8221;, que Vlad exclamava todas as vezes em que sugava um pescoço.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Natasha</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Natasha foi a primeira vampira da dramaturgia brasileira, e deixou muitos marmanjos de queixo caído. A personagem foi interpretada pela bela Cláudia Ohana na novela Vamp, de 1991. Ela vendeu sua alma ao terrível Conde Vladimir Polanski para alcançar o sucesso como cantora de rock. No entanto, não era uma criatura do Mal: ao contrário, logo se arrependeu do pacto com Vlad e pôs-se a fugir dele, escondendo-se na cidade de Armação dos Anjos. Lá, ela reencontrou seu amor de vidas passadas, o capitão Jonas, personagem de Reginaldo Farias. Enciumado e receoso de que esse amor medieval pudesse voltar à tona, o Conde Vladimir passou a perseguir Natasha e a família do capitão, causando trapalhadas que renderam boas risadas ao público.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Angel</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Este é o Vampiro mais adorado pelas adolescentes de todo o planeta&#8230; Protagonista de um seriado de TV americano, Angel é um Vampiro sedutor que usa todo o seu charme e inteligência para ajudar os oprimidos e tirar da consciência o peso de séculos praticando o Mal&#8230; Interpretado pelo galã David Boreanaz, o herói fez sua estréia em outra série televisiva, &#8220;Buffy, a Caça-Vampiros&#8221;. Depois de ser vencido pela protagonista, o Vampiro irlandês Angelus resolveu assumir o lado do Bem e a paixão pela mocinha, interpretada por Sarah Michelle Gellar. O grande sucesso do personagem lhe garantiu uma série própria, iniciada em 1999, que mostra a trajetória do Vampiro justiceiro após deixar a amada e a pequena cidade de Sunnydale para iniciar uma carreira de investigador particular em Los Angeles&#8230; Assim como Blade, Angel se tornou uma dor de cabeça ambulante para seus irmãos de sangue, e um verdadeiro colírio para as fãs mais animadas!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Jerry Dandridge</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Apesar de serem monstros da escuridão, os Vampiros quase sempre foram representados no cinema como galanteadores incorrigíveis, homens elegantes que não perdem a chance de seduzir uma bela mocinha, para só depois revelar a horrível face do mal&#8230; E Jerry Dandridge, o vilão de &#8220;A Hora do Espanto&#8221;, um blockbuster de 1985, vestiu com perfeição este estereótipo marcante dos sanguessugas. Vestido sempre de modo impecável, perfumado e polido, a máscara de Jerry (interpretado por Chris Sarandon) só não foi capaz de enganar o jovem Charley, que desconfiou desde sempre da boa educação de seu novo vizinho&#8230; Com seu estilo doce e sexy, Jerry Dandrige conseguiu vampirizar a namorada do jovem, Amy, e seu melhor amigo, Ed, além de arrancar muitos suspiros da maior parte do público feminino, especialmente quando assobiava romanticamente o clássico &#8220;Strangers in the night&#8221; (tudo a ver, não é mesmo?), de Sinatra.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>David</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">&#8220;Dormir o dia inteiro. Zoar a noite toda. Nunca crescer. Nunca morrer. É divertido ser um vampiro!&#8221;. Foi com este lema que o sensual vampiro David conquistou diversos seguidores no filme Garotos Perdidos (Lost Boys, 1987), clássico dos anos 80 estrelado por Kiefer Sutherland. As estripulias bizarras de David e sua turma vampiresca escandalizaram uma pequena cidade da Califórnia. Como em um ritual, suas vítimas precisavam beber vinho de sangue e comer vermes. Foi o caso de Emerson (Jason Patrick), que por amor a Star (Jami Gertz), aceitou o rito de passagem e se tornou um ser das trevas, passando a integrar a primeira gangue de sanguessugas bad boys do cinema!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Bento Carneiro</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">&#8220;Minha vingança será maligna!&#8221; &#8211; Quem já ouviu esta frase pode até não se lembrar da origem, mas os fãs de Chico Anysio jamais vão esquecer de Bento Carneiro, o Vampiro Brasileiro, o único ser das trevas que morava &#8220;aquém do além adonde que veve os mortos&#8221;&#8230; O personagem, um vampiro atrapalhado, simplório e desprestigiado, foi criado pelo humorista na década de 80 e logo se tornou um dos maiores sucessos de seu &#8220;Chico Anysio Show&#8221;. Sempre ao lado de seu fiel escudeiro, Calunga, Bento Carneiro fez do mito do Vampiro um veículo perfeito para brincar e ridicularizar, sempre com muito bom humor, as mazelas e contradições da sociedade brasileira.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Os Monstros</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Na década de 60, a CBS americana produziu um seriado para a TV que marcou toda uma geração de telespectadores. A exemplo da família Addams, da rival ABC, realizada na mesma época, os Monstros faziam piada com os costumes exóticos de uma família sinistra&#8230; O pai, Herman (Fred Gwynne), era filho de um certo Dr. Frankestein. Vovô (Al Lewis), de apenas 370 anos, gastava a maior parte de seu tempo em loucas experiências de laboratório. Os filhos eram Eddie (Butch Patrick), verdadeiro monstrinho de pele verde, orelhas pontiagudas e caninos afiados, e Marilyn (Beverley Owen/Pat Priest), loira, esbelta, de olhos verdes, isto é, um verdadeiro horror para os padrões da família! A única vampira da história era a esposa de Herman, Lily Dracula, uma dona de casa sempre preocupada com a criação dos filhos&#8230; Cancelado nos EUA em 1966, o seriado foi exibido no Brasil ainda na década de 60, e reprisado em meados da década de 70, fazendo mais sucesso do que os Addams! As trapalhadas dos Monstros divertiam pessoas de todas as idades, principalmente quando Vovô resolvia dar uma voltinha com seu veículo: um caixão sobre rodas!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Varney</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Sir Francis Varney era uma criatura literalmente repugnante. Criado pelo escritor inglês James Malcolm Rymer em 1847 (antes mesmo de Drácula!) no livro &#8220;Varney, o Vampiro ou o Banquete Sangrento&#8221;, a maior arma dessa criatura era a sua feiúra! Com sua face pálida e mórbidos olhos cor-de-lata, Varney hipnotizava suas vítimas apenas com o olhar&#8230; Com unhas e dentes pontiagudos, esse vampiro arranhava as vidraças das casas, fazendo o ruído de granizo. Por isso, também ficou conhecido como o &#8220;Vampiro das Tempestades&#8221;, agindo sempre em dias chuvosos ou com neve. Esse monstro pavoroso tinha preferência por jovens indefesas, que eram atacadas sem dó nem piedade. No entanto, Varney era um ser bastante temperamental, e se dava ao luxo de se sentir desgostoso com a imortalidade de vez em quando&#8230; Então, quando os raios da lua o acordavam e seu humor não estava dos melhores, o vampiro se escondia no Monte Vesúvio, onde nenhum feixe de luz poderia despertá-lo.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Blade</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Além da Vampirella, outro herói dos quadrinhos também ficou famoso pelos seus poderes vampirescos. Ele se chama Blade e nasceu das idéias de Marv Wolfman, então roteirista da Marvel Comics. A grande diferença é que o herói negro não é bem um Vampiro de verdade, e sim uma mistura de ser humano com um Filho das Trevas&#8230; Como? A origem de Blade é espetacular: sua mãe foi atacada por um Vampiro quando ainda levava o filho no útero. Dessa forma, o bebê recebeu um pouco do sangue maldito, adquirindo alguns de seus poderes especiais. Como vingança, Blade se tornou um impiedoso caçador dos sanguessugas, e para isso utiliza as geringonças high-tech criadas por Whistler, também inventor do soro que Blade usa para poder caminhar à luz do dia sem virar pó. No cinema, o herói já mereceu dois filmes que estouraram nas bilheterias, ambos protagonizados pelo blockbuster Wesley Snipes.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>O Vampiro do Brooklyn</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Blade, o caçador de Vampiros vivido por Wesley Snipes, não é o único representante da galeria de sanguessugas afro-americanos&#8230; Em 1995, Eddie Murphy personificou no cinema o hilariante Maximillian, único sobrevivente de uma raça de Vampiros de uma ilha caribenha. Dirigido por Wes Craven, da série &#8220;Pânico&#8221;, &#8220;O Vampiro do Brooklyn&#8221; trouxe a verve cômica do eterno tira da pesada para o mundo dos Filhos da Noite. No filme, Eddie Murphy tem que encontrar a única mulher que pode salvar sua raça da extinção. Vivida por Angela Basset, Rita mora no Brooklyn e convive com estranhos pesadelos. Sem saber, a moça é filha de um Vampiro, e por isso carrega nas veias um destino sanguinolento. Mas uma série de contratempos acontecem (como sempre!) e Maximillian tem de mover mundos e fundos para conquistar Rita e garantir a preservação de sua espécie.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Blacula</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Blacula é o personagem principal do filme de mesmo nome, dirigido por William Crain em 1972. Trata-se da versão afro-americana do maior vampiro de todos os tempos. A história começa com Manuwalde (William Marshall), um príncipe africano que é vampirizado pelo próprio Conde Drácula em 1780, e acaba trancafiado dentro de seu próprio caixão. Séculos depois, dois colecionadores de arte resolvem levar a tumba para Los Angeles, onde Blacula desperta sedento de sangue! O Vampiro conhece Tina, a reencarnação de sua falecida esposa Luva, e faz de tudo para conquistar o seu amor. Mas o caminho de Blacula está cheio de obstáculos: Gordon, o melhor amigo da moça, descobre a verdade sobre Manuwalde e inicia uma verdadeira caçada ao vampiro africano&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Zé Vampir</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Quem é que nunca se divertiu com as histórias da Turma do Penadinho, escritas por Maurício de Souza? Pois essa galerinha de arrepiar não poderia deixar de ter o seu Vampiro. Ele se chama Zé Vampir e é cheio de classe&#8230; Ao contrário dos outros personagens do cemitério, como o Cranícola, Muminho, Lobisomen e a Dona Morte, que normalmente usam apenas trapos ou lençóis (afinal, são fantasmas!), o nosso menino Vampiro se inspirou nos elegantes sanguessugas do cinema para compor o seu visual: smoking, gravata borboleta e uma elegante capa! Como a maioria dos Vampiros, Zé Vampir também pode se transformar em um simpático morcego, coisa que faz sempre quando quer assustar alguém. Apesar disso, Zé Vampir é um Vampiro camarada, e nunca leva seu apetite por sangue às últimas consequências. Na verdade, o morceguinho sempre acaba preferindo alguma guloseima à base de morango ou groselha, bem vermelhinha&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Don Drácula</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Protagonista de um desenho animado japonês, Don Drácula (Don Dorakyura) fez a festa de muitas crianças brasileiras durante a década de 80, quando foi exibido. Criado por Osamu Tezuka (considerado o &#8220;Deus do Mangá&#8221;) em 1979, o pano de fundo da história é a mudança de Drácula para o Japão, para fugir de seu arquiinimigo, o Dr. Rip Van Helsing&#8230; Muito desastrado, o Vampiro acaba se envolvendo em muitas confusões com sua filha, Sangria, e Igor, seu criado corcunda. Sem falar no morceguinho Yasu, que narra com muito bom humor alguns momentos da história. Além de Van Helsing, Don Drácula também se esforça para fugir dos &#8220;ataques&#8221; da apaixonada Blonda, uma gorducha cheia de sangue para dar! Um típico desenho japonês, que deixou saudades em muita gente.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Vampirella</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Criada na década de 60 pelo célebre Forrest J. Ackerman (o escritor que utilizou pela primeira vez a expressão &#8220;Sci-Fi&#8221;), a curvilínea Vampirella povoa a imaginação dos marmanjos desde aquela época. Sempre vestida com um sensual maiô colante vermelho, que revela boa parte de sua invejável forma física, a Vampirella das histórias em quadrinhos já teve duas origens&#8230; Para Ackerman, a Vampira era uma alienígena de Drakulon, onde todos os habitantes são Vampiros que se alimentam do sangue que corre nos rios desse estranho planeta. Na década de 90, entretanto, Vampirella teve sua origem reescrita por Kevin Lau, e passou a ser a filha de Lilith, uma Vampira mitológica. Seja como for, Vampi (como é carinhosamente chamada pelos íntimos) continua combatendo o crime com seu peculiar estilo sexy-sangrento, e muita gente boa não ligaria nem um pouco em ser mordido pela simpática heroína&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Mirza</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Criada em 1967 por Eugênio Colonnese, um dos mestres pioneiros da HQ nacional, Mirza é a personagem feminina mais conhecida do terror brasileiro. Inspirada na internacional Vampirella, a vampira brasileira povoou o imaginário de várias gerações de leitores, já que foi publicada em momentos distintos das décadas de 60, 70 e 80. O verdadeiro nome de Mirza era Mirela Zamanova, uma condessa exuberante que se tornou um ícone não só do terror como também do erotismo nos quadrinhos. Suas aventuras se davam nos ambientes glamurosos das passarelas da alta moda e nas festas da elite brasileira, já que Mirza ganhava a vida como modelo internacional, sempre vestida (ou despida, é claro!) em trajes provocantes e muito muito sensuais&#8230; Em seu reinado de terror, Mirza visitou as maiores cidades do mundo, procurando suas vítimas indiscriminadamente entre homens e mulheres, e deixando uma verdadeira legião de &#8220;órfãos&#8221;, candidatos eternos aos voluptuosos caninos da vampira.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Miriam Blaylock</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">A secular vampira Miriam Blaylock, interpretada por Catherine Deneuve em &#8220;Fome de viver&#8221; (The Hungers), ficou célebre na película de Tony Scott, um dos mais belos e chocantes filmes de 1983. Personagem do livro mais famoso de Whitley Strieber, Lady Miriam e seu vampiro-amante John (David Bowie) tinham uma vida sofisticada, eram apaixonados por música clássica e sobreviviam à base de sangue novo de homens e mulheres. Mas repentinamente John teve um estranho distúrbio celular e envelheceu em poucos segundos, forçando Miriam a procurar a doutora Sarah Roberts (Susan Sarandon), especialista em envelhecimento precoce. Foi a deixa para que a vampira seduzisse a médica ao som da ópera Lakmé, de Léo Delibes, em uma das cenas mais eróticas do filme. Sob o poder de Miriam, Sarah foi perdendo aos poucos sua identidade humana, mergulhando cada vez mais fundo na escuridão dos Filhos da Noite&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Carmilla</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Personagem central de um conto publicado em 1872 pelo escritor irlandês Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla foi uma das primeiras criaturas da noite registradas na literatura mundial. De hábitos noturnos, cabelos e olhos castanho escuros, Carmilla logo chamou a atenção de Laura, uma jovem da nobreza austríaca com quem a Vampira manteve um relacionamento conturbado. Na história, narrada pela própria vítima, Carmilla acaba revelando ser a Condessa Karnstein, uma antepassada de Laura, falecida há mais de 150 anos! Linda, graciosa e de porte aristocrático, Carmilla influenciou toda uma geração de Vampiras fatais, e há quem diga, inclusive, que Bram Stoker teria se inspirado na obra de seu conterrâneo para criar o seu Drácula.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Philinnion</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Philinnion é a personagem de um conto muito antigo atribuído ao historiador grego Phlegon de Trales, que teria vivido no primeiro ou segundo século da era cristã, e por isso pode ser considerada uma das primeiras vampiras da literatura. A história narra o drama de um jovem chamado Machates, que se apaixonou perdidamente por Philinnion, sem saber que ela já estava morta&#8230; Machates morava com os pais da moça, e recebia todas as noites a visita de sua noiva. Quando os pais de Philinnion viram a filha na cama com o hóspede, trataram de avisá-lo que aquilo era uma assombração! O jovem ficou arrasado, e Philinnion amaldiçoou seus pais por terem revelado seu pequeno segredo&#8230; Mais tarde, os habitantes da cidade perceberam que a tumba da jovem estava vazia e encontraram seu corpo em casa. O cadáver de Philinnion foi então queimado e oferecido ao Deus Hermes, para que sua alma fosse enviada ao mundo das trevas. A história de Philinnion era muito famosa na época do Império Romano, e serviu de inspiração para Goethe escrever seu famoso poema &#8220;Die Braut von Korinth&#8221;.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Lord Ruthven</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Personagem principal do livro &#8220;The Vampyre&#8221;, publicado em 1819, o sedutor Lord Ruthven nasceu durante uma emocionante tempestade literária&#8230; Reza a lenda que, em 1816, o grande poeta romântico Lord Byron reuniu em Genebra alguns amigos, entre eles Mary Shelley, escritora, e John Polidori, médico. Byron propôs um desafio aos demais: uma competição de histórias de terror, que foi vencida pelo Frankenstein criado na ocasião por Shelley. Foi nesse jogo que Byron idealizou o enredo para &#8220;The Vampyre&#8221;, mas logo abandonou o projeto. Polidori, que também estava naquela noite, desenvolveu a idéia de Byron e ainda se inspirou na figura do amigo para dar vida a Ruthven, um elegante Vampiro inglês que transitava com desenvoltura nas festas mais chiques da nobreza européia, onde dava vazão a seus instintos bestiais entre um gole de champagne e uma mordida certeira no pescoço de alguma linda donzela&#8230; O evento azedou a amizade dos dois, mas deu ao mundo um dos personagens vampíricos mais marcantes da literatura mundial.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Conde Saint-German</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">O Conde Ragoczy Saint-German é a principal criação da escritora californiana Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, que conta com uma verdadeira legião de fãs vampirescos nos Estados Unidos. Protagonista de mais de uma dezena de livros, Saint-German é um vampiro do bem, um herói que usa a experiência acumulada em 3500 anos de vida para ajudar o próximo, principalmente no caso de belas mulheres&#8230; Poliglota, rico e inteligente, Saint-German é um farmacêutico/alquimista, que precisa de sangue para se manter vivo, mas nunca mata suas vítimas, preferindo alimentar-se de suas amantes ou de estranhos que, em troca, recebem sonhos agradáveis por telepatia. Assim como os sanguessugas tradicionais, o vampiro de Yazbro também não pode se ver no espelho, carrega sempre um punhado de sua terra natal (às vezes dentro dos sapatos&#8230;), e pode se recuperar de ferimentos que levariam qualquer ser humano à morte! Um herói pra lá de charmoso, que convida o leitor para conhecer as mais fantásticas eras de nossa história.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Azzo, o Cavaleiro</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Encravado em algum lugar dos Cárpatos, na Romênia, está o assombrado castelo Klatka. Este é o lar de Azzo, o Cavaleiro Vampiro que protagoniza a obra &#8220;A Mysterious Stranger&#8221;, de autor desconhecido, publicada pela primeira vez em 1860. Azzo é um Vampiro centenário, com um profundo desprezo pela humanidade, e só tem interesse pelas coisas pitorescas, incomuns. Ante sua presença, mesmo os lobos mais selvagens se tornam dóceis e inofensivos. Com a eterna aparência de um homem de 40 anos, alto e magro, o Cavaleiro tem olhos cinzas amedrontadores, e usa bigode, barba e cabelos negros e curtos. Sempre vestido em sua armadura medieval, Azzo é rude, sarcástico e monossilábico com os visitantes, guardando toda a sua elegância e cultura secular para cortejar as jovens donzelas que acompanham os viajantes. Quando convidado para um banquete, o Cavaleiro Azzo sempre recusa a comida, fazendo questão de frisar que só se alimenta de líquidos&#8230; quentes!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>O Vampiro de Sussex</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Em 1924, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publicou &#8220;The Sussex Vampire&#8221; (&#8220;O Vampiro de Sussex&#8221;), colocando Sherlock Holmes frente a frente com um ser das trevas. A história começa em uma manhã de novembro, com uma carta assustadora. Nela, um certo Robert Ferguson pede a ajuda de Holmes para resolver um espantoso caso de vampirismo! O detetive começa a investigar uma série de mortes ocorridas no vilarejo em questão, que parecem ligadas a um estranho fato ocorrido há um século atrás. Nessa ocasião, os habitantes do local teriam assassinado todos os integrantes de uma família, acusados de vampiros. Assustados, os novos moradores começam a acreditar que um descendente dos sanguessugas é o responsável pelas mortes, sedento de sangue e vingança. Sherlock tem de usar toda a sua miraculosa astúcia para resolver a questão, e acaba provando mais uma vez que os vivos sempre são muito mais perigosos que os mortos&#8230; Mas você não vai querer saber o final da história, certo? O negócio é ler o livro para se deliciar com o caso mais sanguinolento do maior detetive do mundo!</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>VAMPIROS FAMOSOS DA TV E DO CINEMA</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">1. Lestat &#8211; Interview With the Vampire</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">2. Christopher Lee&#8217;s Dracula</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">3. Bela Lugosi&#8217;s Dracula</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">4. Edward Cullen &#8211; Twilight (Crepúsculo)</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">5. Bill and Eric &#8211; True Blood</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">6. Asa Vajda, 1960&#8217;s Black Sunday</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">7. Angel</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">8. Mr. Barlow &#8211; Salem&#8217;s Lot</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">9. Schuyler Van Alen &#8211; Melissa de la Cruz&#8217;s Blue Bloods series</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">10. Gary Oldman&#8217;s Drácula</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Fonte: Revista Entertainment Weekly</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">http://www.estadao.com.br/noticias/arteelazer,confira-os-vampiros-mais-famosos-da-literatura-e-do-cinema,466500,0.htm</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>(Entry contains spoilers)</strong></p>
<p><strong>Country:</strong> France.<br />
<strong>Written and Directed by:</strong> <em>Claude Chabrol.<br />
</em><strong>Cast:</strong> <em>Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia, Pascal Ferone.</em></p>
<p>To interpret <em>Claude Chabrol&#8217;s</em> movies can be a real challenge, as his movies are full of depth and symbolism, yet they are often simple in style and setting.</p>
<p>As a director, he is very interested in the psychological states of his protagonists and this particular movie,<strong> Le Boucher</strong> (1970) is among his so-called, &#8220;<em>genteel-bourgeois-murder cycle</em>&#8221; together with the movies; <strong>La Femme Infidèle</strong> (1969), <strong>Que La Bête Meure</strong> (1969), <strong>La Rupture</strong> (1970), <strong>Juste avant la nuit</strong> (1971) and <strong>Les noces rouges</strong> (1973). In these movies, <em>Claude Chabrol</em> dealt with the hidden truths of his seemingly sociopathic characters and to this day, he is <em>much</em> associated with the mystery genre, as it&#8217;s still a genre and subject matter that occupies his creative ideas as a living master of film-making. Interestingly, his movies is still often set in provincial towns.</p>
<p>Many of his movies show the influence director, <em>Alfred Hitchcock</em> has had on him, seen in his effective<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_en_sc%C3%A8ne"> mise en scènes</a> and in general, just the way he creates suspense in his mystery/thriller films. In fact, he often pays homage to <em>Hitchcock</em> in his films; in <strong>Le Boucher</strong> (1970) he pays homage to two of<em> Hitchcock&#8217;s</em> movies, <strong>Foreign Correspondent</strong> (1940) and <strong>Strangers on a Train</strong> (1951) . </p>
<p>Noteworthily, <em>Claude Chabrol</em> co-wrote the book, <strong>Hitchcock</strong> with <em>Éric Rohmer</em> in 1957 which studied the cinema-work of <em>Mr. Hitchcock</em>.<em> </em>In terms of his passion for the cinema, he also wrote for the influential film-focused magazine<strong> Cahiers du Cinema</strong> (the magazine was founded in 1951) throughout the 1950s, before he became a director, along with such important directors and Cinemaphiles like; <em>François Truffaut</em>, <em>Jacques Rivette</em> and <em>Jean-Luc Godard.</em> He was one of the first to start the French New Wave which was to influence film-making not just in France but the world over. Interestingly, unlike many of his contemporaries, he still makes movies today; he has made an impressive number of 71 movies thus far (check out the new documentary about <em>Claude Chabrol</em> called, <strong>Claude Chabrol, L&#8217;Artisan</strong> (2009) as it&#8217;s <em>really</em> good) .</p>
<p>The film,<strong> le Boucher</strong> (1970) is, in my mind, a great example of his work with its Hitchcockian thriller aspects and Noir elements, to its complex and utterly flawed characters, to its symbolism in the small details and to its poetic stylization and brilliantly haunting score (done by <em>Pierre Jansen</em>). Right from the beginning of the film with its happy atmosphere at a wedding where the two seemingly happy but utterly lonely characters  meet, we&#8217;re engaged into a story of hidden truths. Helene (<em>Stéphane Audran</em>) is a confident and independent school headmistress and Popaul (<em>Jean Yvanne</em>)  is the local butcher. The music in the beginning is surprisingly light and it&#8217;s not until Helene walks back to the school where she also has her home, that we hear the haunting and effective music.</p>
<p><a href="http://worldcinemahaven.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/vlcsnap-1461512.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-35 aligncenter" title="LeBoucher_cap1" src="http://worldcinemahaven.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/vlcsnap-1461512.png" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></a></p>
<p>Interestingly, at the wedding she indicates that she loves weddings, yet she does not want to be in a relationship whatsoever, with any guy, after having been hurt badly 10 years prior. Though she keeps a certain distance from Popaul, he obviously excites her which is something that is lacking in her responsible life as a school headmistress. The inner wildness and excitement in her character is shown most vividly, in the morning scene after the wedding where she smokes a cigarette with an attitude on the street in a sexy <em>and</em> sensual way, signaling female dominance and mystery. She seems free as a bird (though she is under the influence of alcohol). But really, she isn&#8217;t!</p>
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<p>Throughout the film, Popaul very clearly feels unworthy of her, symbolically seen when he visits her at home and his chair is much smaller than hers. The lack of confidence on his part is partly due to his time in the army, where the memories of war with an overload of death and blood still haunts him. She functions as his savior of sorts, though it&#8217;s not realized on her part until much later in the movie .</p>
<p>The film is very much a character study of flawed characters that is not what they appear; throughout the film Helene has to deal with the overwhelming suspicion that Popaul is the one that has killed all the girls that has been killed in the little French rural town they&#8217;re living in. Indeed, it turns out that Popaul is clearly the towns&#8217;  psycopatic killer, but it&#8217;s much more complex than that. Popaul has been, in many ways, ruined psychologically by the war and the lack of romantic and sexual affection from Helene clearly brings fort the killer in him.</p>
<p>The distance in their platonic relationship is effective and symbolically shown between them through the window scenes; Popaul outside the window looking in and Helene looking out.  They have both been emotionally scarred in their life; Helene who was abandoned by her former lover before she moved to this little idyllic town, and Popaul with his strained relationship to his father who abused him and his 15 difficult years in the French army - the film clearly argues or suggests that Popauls abusive childhood and time in the war has contributed to his crimes.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color:#000080;"><em><strong>&#8220;I have a lot of blood – my blood doesn’t stop flowing. I know about blood. I’ve seen so much blood, blood flowing. … Once, when I was little, I fainted when I saw blood. I noticed the smell of blood – they all smell the same, that of animals and that of men. Some is more red than others, but all have exactly the same smell.&#8221;</strong></em> &#8211; Popaul </span><span style="color:#000080;">in the poetic scene by the end of the film, in the car on the way to the hospital.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>Popaul cannot get beyond blood by this point in his life and the rejection of affection from Helene, ultimately drives him to kill. The complexity of these two fractured souls are dealt by its director and writer, <em>Claude Chabrol</em> in an extremely simple but utterly depthful and sympathetic way, particularly in the character of Popaul. <em>Claude Chabrol</em> balances between the showing of the darkness of both characters to have scenes that sympathize more with the characters that make us, as viewers, understand the reason why the characters are behaving and doing what they do. The last few minutes of the film, suggests a much more flawed character in Helene, though subtly shown through her face expressions and in particular, her eyes; she has clearly been affected by the events with Popaul and the guilt she feels is apparent at the end of the film. </p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://worldcinemahaven.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/vlcsnap-1569291.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-38 aligncenter" title="leBoucher_cap3" src="http://worldcinemahaven.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/vlcsnap-1569291.png" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></a></p>
<blockquote><p><em>Vincent Canby</em> made an interesting point in<a title="The New York Times" href="http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review&#38;OQ=_rQ3D4Q26resQ3D9B07E0DB1038EE34BC4C52DFBF66838B669EDEQ26orefQ3DsloginQ26orefQ3Dlogin&#38;OP=663745c6Q2FQ7BaX5Q7BIQ7D.XWQ22bQ7BL.)WQ5BQ5BI-Q7BQ5BHi.XL.XQ22Q7BbivQ7DXIQ7BHXvQ7DXaQ2BQ5BuQ5BQ7BbivQ7DXQ7BHXvQ7DXa" target="_blank"> <span style="color:#339966;">The New York Times</span></a>, september 14, 1970: <em>&#8220;I’m not sure that “Le Boucher” works for me on the level of psychological realism. I find it impossible to accept the suggestion that Chabrol ultimately makes, that is, that Mile. Hélène could have saved the psychotic killer from himself had she not been afraid to love, and that, by withholding her love, she is in some way as much of a beast as he is, fit to be condemned to eternal loneliness.&#8221; </em></p></blockquote>
<p><em>Claude Chabrol</em> often shows the depth and flaws of women, most notably with actress, <em>Isabelle Huppert</em>. What is interesting about <em>Stéphane Audran</em> (married to <em>Claude Chabrol</em> from 1964-1980) in this movie, is her Hitchcockian blonde hair combined with her classical beauty showing a great sense of impassivity and mystery, much like <em>Catherine Deneuve</em> in some ways. The complexity <em>Claude Chabrol</em> shows of Helene as acted by <em>Stéphane Audran</em> is one of understanding; <em>Claude Chabrol</em> knows how to capture her essence on-screen and makes her a real flesh and blood character. <em>Jean Yvanne</em> who was often used in <em>Claude Chabrol&#8217;s</em> movies at this time, gives a complex performance with that moody quality that makes him so perfectly cast for this part and he compliments <em>Stéphane Audran&#8217;s</em> performance so well, too.  One of <em>Claude Chabrol&#8217;s</em> strenghts as a director, is his understanding of portraying realistic human beings in a complex and symbolic, yet understated way - it is one of the many reasons why this movie is endlessly fascinating.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://worldcinemahaven.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/vlcsnap-157394.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-39 aligncenter" title="leBoucher_cap4" src="http://worldcinemahaven.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/vlcsnap-157394.png" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></a></p>
<p>Cross-posted to my blog, <a href="http://www.classicmaiden.com">www.classicmaiden.com</a></p>
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<p><strong>Yves St. Laurent</strong> received the macabre treatment when he dressed actress/muse <strong>Catherine Deneuve</strong> for the 1983 horror/suspense film <em>The Hunger, </em>also starring David Bowie and Susan Sarandon. Deneuve&#8217;s wardrobe showed the darkest reaches of St. Laurent&#8217;s range &#8212; acclimating to the <a href="http://nuevemusas.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/nomis-song/">hardness of the 80&#8217;s</a>,  notably designers Thierry Mugler and Claude Montana, he had French glamor and sexual subversion easing his way.</p>
<p>Perhaps it was this macabre treatment that inspired <strong>Martin Margiela</strong>&#8217;s second reiteration of the squared shoulder in his fall 2007 collection (if in fact it was <a href="http://nuevemusas.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/margielas-second-face/">him</a>). The severity and darkness of the mood is vampire worthy, and certainly those graphic shoulders don&#8217;t shy away from Deneuve&#8217;s YSL wardrobe, complete with his signature shoulder. But the real give away is the soundtrack of Bauhaus&#8217; <strong><em>Bela Lugosi&#8217;s Dead</em></strong> as it creeps along in the opening scene of <em>The Hunger</em> and on Margiela&#8217;s catwalk, connecting the two not so disparate visions of the night.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[THE HUNGER :: FANTASY :: 021]]></title>
<link>http://joycereview.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/the-hunger-fantasy-021/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Hunger, a film by Tony Scott (Man On Fire, The Taking of Pelham 123) is a vampiric work of art t]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Lunch with Romane/Dinner with Brummel]]></title>
<link>http://eatingstamfordhill.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/lunch-with-romanedinner-with-brummel/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>eatingoutinstamfordhill</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I stop off for two nights in Avignon en route for the Côte d&#8217;Azur. It&#8217;s a long journey f]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>I stop off for two nights in Avignon en route for the Côte d&#8217;Azur. It&#8217;s a long journey from Annecy, made all the longer by the cancellation of my planned train and thus a hiccup in subsequent connection. I begin to suspect reverse culture shock following Japan. There&#8217;s a connection I&#8217;m told twice doesn&#8217;t exist, but as the train pulls out of the relevant station, I can see it announced on the board. A three and a half hour journey takes seven. Oh well, the scenery is pleasant enough from Annecy down into Grenoble. Mountains, oh how pretty, then shanty towns around the edge of underpasses, people living in sheds, crap estates, actual France, not the picture postcard.</p>
<p>Avignon itself seems built in two parts. There&#8217;s the old walled part of the city and then there&#8217;s what is beyond it. I don&#8217;t enter the beyond during those two days. I go to the <a href="http://www.palais-des-papes.com/" target="_blank">Palais des Papes</a>, wander up and around Rocher des Domes, go for lunch at <a href="http://www.legrandcafe-avignon.com/" target="_blank">Le Grand Café</a>. I&#8217;m not sure this is the place that my friends in Haute-Savoie referred to, they suggested going for lunch in a place inside a modern art gallery. Is this it? Probably not.</p>
<p><a href="http://eatingstamfordhill.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/romane.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-226" src="http://eatingstamfordhill.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/romane.jpg" alt="" width="480" height="640" /></a></p>
<p>My great pleasure upon sitting down is that I&#8217;m facing a large portrait photograph of Romane Bohringer. Now, Romane and myself have something of a history. Not an actual history, a quite imagined history. Romane first came to my attention in 1992  with <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Nuits_fauves" target="_blank"><em>Les Nuits Fauves</em></a>, one of the first French films that had HIV/AIDS as a central theme. The subject matter was quite French, the chief protagonist (played by writer/director Cyril Collard who died of an AIDS-related condition in &#8216;93) was apparently torn between his gay and straight natures as well as his irrepressible desires. Not to mention his impending death. Basically, it meant for most of the film he shagged whomever he wanted and didn&#8217;t take any responsibility for how his actions might affect others, in particular the entirely passionate and smitten Romane.</p>
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<p>It&#8217;s alright for some, I possibly thought, here I am in bleak loveless London, whereas in an imagined France a man can act like an utter bastard and have no problem finding women of such calibre. Years passed and Romane would pop up in other French films from time to time. Since these were blissful times before the internet saturated us with information, when facts about French actresses were dependent on magazine and newspaper articles (and you might well miss an issue and the relevant mention), I knew very little about her.</p>
<p>Romane&#8217;s star was possibly most ascendant in the UK around the time of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwapQhrZ-D0" target="_blank"><em>L&#8217;appartement</em></a> in &#8216;96, a film in which Vincent Cassel makes the idiotic mistake of choosing Monica Bellucci over Romane Bohringer. Oh, but Monica Bellucci, you say… I imagine a life with Monica would be very demanding. Aside from maintaining her in the custom to which she is accustomed, every single day of life would mark some slight decline in her appearance. Let&#8217;s face it, she looks great (a supermarket melon perfection) but her acting isn&#8217;t up to much. Whereas Romane seem to me to be much more of an artist, she worked with Peter Brook at a young age and, what I&#8217;m quite fond of, is that she has some mole on the side of her nose that has remained throughout her career, unlike the airbrushed lad&#8217;s mag perfection of Bellucci.</p>
<p>My idealised attachment with Romane was at its strongest around this time. I was living in the countryside in Japan and the local video shop had a surprisingly well-stocked back catalogue of French cinema. Rural isolation encouraged a quite wholesome and teenage fascination with Romane and eventually I wrote a short story on my return to London in which she played the role of a guardian angel, whilst the main story was about a resurrected Mithraic cult that was attempting to gain absolute power. I haven&#8217;t read it in ages, if you&#8217;re lucky, which might not be that much, it would probably read like Dan Brown reworking Iain Sinclair.</p>
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<p>So, trying to get back to food here, as I sat down opposite the photo of Romane, I was reminded of all this. Romane and myself started with a simple olive tart and then treated outselves to an ox-cheek daube. It&#8217;s possibly a bit ambitious, I think, we&#8217;re (no, hang on, I am…) booked in for dinner in the hotel restaurant. But ox-cheek daube is one of the few French dishes I cook with any regularity and I&#8217;m keen to gauge my efforts against this local version. Well, the restaurant&#8217;s is good, but my mine is better. Phew. I don&#8217;t grudge the dish we&#8217;re eating though. It&#8217;s quite delicious and everything is swimming along with a 50cl carafe of local Côtes du Rhône.</p>
<p>Romane doesn&#8217;t say much. She looks great though. She&#8217;s been positioned next to another portrait of Catherine Deneuve. There&#8217;s a contrast. The restaurant is fairly quiet, some 70&#8217;s French hits play in the background, the waiting staff are fairly underemployed, there&#8217;s a relaxed laziness to the place, although I presume it would be quite busy in the summer months outside. Romane particularly appreciates dessert. I&#8217;m fond of women who eat food and she wolfs down the rest while my attention is distracted by an outburst of birdsong. I take my coffee out on the terrace.</p>
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<p>I wander back towards the hotel, buy a winter cap, three books (the catalogue for the 1992 Fassbinder <em>werkschau</em>, <a href="http://revueformules.blogspot.com/2009/03/anthologie-de-la-revue-bizarre-1953.html" target="_blank">an anthology of <em>Bizarre</em></a> &#8211; a review produced the Collège de &#8216;Pataphysique in the 50&#8217;s and 60&#8217;s &#8211; and the <a href="http://dogramagra.shunkin.net/" target="_blank">French translation</a> of Yumeno Kyusaku&#8217;s classic <em>Dogra Magra</em>. Back at the hotel, I snooze off and wake up to a retrospective on tv of Marina Abramovic. I must be in France, I think, to be watching this at 4pm. I loll around, take another walk and pop into second-hand bookshop where I pick up two English books: one about Victorian women travellers and the other what appears to be a small selection of writings about Beau Brummel. I can read that over dinner I think…</p>
<p>Dinner is at <em>La Vieille Fontaine</em> where the chef is Bruno d&#8217;Angelis. I look for hotels when I&#8217;m in England, there&#8217;s an inclusive offer of dinner in the online package. Oh, why not, I think. I don&#8217;t often stay in fancy hotels, I don&#8217;t want more than a clean room, a bath and an internet connection. Bruno has his star. I am only realising now on searching that in fact this is the restaurant where Keith Floyd lunches (and then snoozes) in the recent Keith Allen documentary!</p>
<p>I&#8217;m feeling a bit jaded myself after lunch. Dinner should probably be a cheese sandwich and an early night. Instead, I&#8217;ve a four course seasonal mushroom tasting menu. Here&#8217;s what I ate:</p>
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<p>Well, that&#8217;s no good, you say. I have to squint quite severely to read a word of that. It&#8217;s not a consciously bad photo. It is a photo I take as I&#8217;m standing waiting for a taxi to take me to the station the following morning. Like the other photos in this entry, it&#8217;s taken with a slightly aged mobile phone at all of 2.0 megapixels. But then, given my comments before, I wonder whether there isn&#8217;t a space left for &#8220;bad&#8221; photography when it comes to food, or perhaps no photography at all. But then, surely the writing needs to be up to par, make the food come alive. My notes of the evening don&#8217;t really help here. They are mostly concerned with:</p>
<p>1. Disappointment over Brummel book. It occurs to me upon reading that Brummel didn&#8217;t spend his time in Paris buying automobiles. The book in question, whilst enjoyable in its own ephemeral way, is a 1930&#8217;s guide to Paris for rich Americans with pertinent suggestions as to where they should spend there dollars on perfumes, shirts, hats and such. It&#8217;s not enough of a book to sustain me through dinner. The only available conversation in the otherwise empty restaurant is in Danish from the couple sat next to me. She dissects her lobster with the enthusiasms of a forensic gynaecologist.</p>
<p>2. The chairs. Chairs that are neither high-backed or armchairs. Narrow enough to grasp you around the waist, arms not quite high enough to rest your limbs upon, but quite capable of crushing your jacket. Brummel wouldn&#8217;t approve. You try leaning back, no, not much support there. They probably cost a bit. They prevent any form of relaxation. Or escape.</p>
<p>3. Darkness. The restaurant is excessively dark. There&#8217;s a chandelier that could be turned on but isn&#8217;t. How much of this darkness is because of Europe&#8217;s recent proscription on incandescent lightbulbs? A dimming of the day. A vision of our own decline. Time, gentlemen please&#8230;</p>
<p>4. The food is good, but for a mushroom themed menu, I&#8217;d like to see more mushrooms! At €90, there seems to be a need to tick certain ingredients to justify the price. In order: mushroom themselves, scallops, lobster, beef. I&#8217;d have preferred to eat rare and expensive mushrooms and forget about the rest. The scallops remind me just how badly they were cooked at Chez Didi, the <em>tisane des carapaces</em> with the lobster is rather astonishing, but I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s exactly food. The one thing that I don&#8217;t like is the <em>jus au Merlot</em> with the beef. It&#8217;s reduced beyond necessity, or more pertinently, beyond the point where it&#8217;s enjoyable to eat, rather than just admire as a potential oil painting medium.</p>
<p>When I get to my friends the next day, he asks about the meal. In conversational shorthand, I say that it was like an expensive call-girl. You could admire the technical prowess, the sheen of the stockings, the scent, the bag of tricks and moves designed to get the punter off just enough to get them keen to pay for extras. But, as I said, sometimes you probably really want Cheeky Mary down by the harbour. She has a humanity to her I couldn&#8217;t grasp in this meal. No kissing. Catherine Deneuve, possibly. Had I not eaten a large lunch earlier in the day, it probably would have sat better with me. The meal concluded, I walked upstairs to my room and lay down on the bed where I passed a fairly sleepless night, digesting, digesting&#8230;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the sort of restaurant I can remember visiting with my father during childhood. We&#8217;d go on these family holidays to France that would often include a few meals at places that he&#8217;d chosen from a French Michelin guide. I don&#8217;t remember enjoying them then. The ghost of my father haunts me vaguely at such times and he certainly inhabits me when I look at myself in the mirror. Not so much the face, the stomach, whether larger or smaller. Just as I watched his girth expand and contract many times over the years.</p>
<p>At around 4am, I awake to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ42SqtLlLE" target="_blank">an overly long psychedelic sequence</a> in a Western called <em>Blueberry</em> (with Vincent Cassel, natch) and make a spectacular and profound evacuation. I feel much better after that.</p>
<p>When I get home to the UK, there&#8217;s an email from Lastminute.com. Here&#8217;s the picture:</p>
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<p>What on earth is that? They look like wind-up false teeth. They march across the plate, snap at your fingers, extrude a beetroot maw. Turn up the saturation. Only £19. Where are we eating? It&#8217;s a <em>michelin star</em> place, lower case, you get food that looks, well, it looks very clever. It&#8217;s £19. Do you want to go or not? Well, what&#8217;s it all about? It&#8217;s <em>fucking michelin star</em>, what more do you need to know? That means it&#8217;s proper. I don&#8217;t know, I quite fancied the Turkish down the road. What is your problem? Thierry Henry doesn&#8217;t eat at the Turkish, Peaches Geldof doesn&#8217;t eat at the Turkish. They eat <em>michelin star</em>. Do they? Yes and it&#8217;s only £19. It&#8217;s also very pink. Come on, £19! What can you get at the Turkish for that? Well, a meal for two for a start. Or, you could have the mixed grill and a couple of beers. But I don&#8217;t see how anyone ever manages the mixed grill, it&#8217;s enough meat for a family of four. There&#8217;s a photo of Patsy out of EastEnders. She must have eaten there. And Martin Jol. They&#8217;re friendly in there, they even know our names now. That time we forgot the wallet, they let us come back and pay the next day. Still gave us baklava to take home. Do they do baklava at <em>michelin star</em>? They do petty fours, which are a bit like chocolates, except they&#8217;re not always. Not always like chocolates? Yes, they&#8217;re like dreams and aspirations spun from sugar and culinary talent that tell us that we have arrived. Where have we arrived? We have arrived in the world and are here and looking at people and people are looking at us and all is well with ourselves reflecting through and around other people. Blimey. And so on.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[13th UK Jewish Film Festival: The Girl On The Train (Le Fille Du RER) (2009), Directed by André Téchiné]]></title>
<link>http://priscillaeyles.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/13th-uk-jewish-film-festival-the-girl-on-the-train-le-fille-du-rer-2009-directed-by-andre-techine/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Tension mounts for Jeanne (Émilie Dequenne) as she sits with Samuel Bleistein&#39;s (Michel Blanc) f]]></description>
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<p>Rating: 7/10</p>
<p>The film concerns the twenty-something Jeanne  (a luminous Émilie Dequenne) and the consequences that come about when she makes up an anti-Semetic attack. It starts by showing the close relationship with her caring single mother Louise (the brilliant Catherine Deneuve), making her fall from grace more baffling and disturbing to Louise and the audience. When Jeanne is looking for her job Louise finds her a secretarial role at her old friend (who formerly wanted to marry her whiole she was married to Jeanne&#8217;s late father) Samuel Bleistein&#8217;s (Michel Blanc) law firm.</p>
<p>However she does not get the job and instead meets a man Franck (an intriguing Nicholas Duvaucelle who bears more than a passing resemblance to Tom Hardy) while skating who pursues her (after cleverly scamming her a suitcase) until she finally agress to meet up with him again (*spoiler warning read on to next paragraph if you don&#8217;t want to know all the plot details*). He then gets her involved unknowingly in a drugs ring so he can afford to live with her. An incident with a drug dealer then leaves him hospitlaised and prompts him to break off with her, angry for getting attached and annoyed  that she lied to him about her job as  a secretary. The whole incident leaves Jeanne traumitised and partly explains her fabrication of the anti-Semetic violence against her, showing her need for love and attention in this time of crisis.</p>
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<p>The premise is quite an intriguing one and leaves some questions unanswered. It shows the effects that trauma can have upon someone, particularly someone like Jeanne who seems to be a compulsive liar and who is very influenced by events around her, particularly the reports and documenatries about anti-semitism she sees on the TV which inspires her to cut her face, neck and hair and draw swastikas on her stomach. Although I must say when the whole thing gets out of hand and there is a media outcry which prompts the President to declare his support for Jeanne, it did slip into the regions of implausability. Although it did show  that the media is partly to blame for the mass dissemination of misinformation which can provoke hysteria (particularly relevant given the recent melodramatic coverage of  swine flu by the tabloids).</p>
<p>Franck is also an interesting character, Demy conveying a potent mix of macho aggressiveness, charm and mysteriousness, with his tattoos, wrestling and twisted sense of humour (at one point jokingly telling Jeanne to strip when he first invite her to his apartment).  His reticence to talk about his family and brother in prison, and the fact that we don&#8217;t know anything about him apart from the small bits of information he gives to Jeanne means that we never really know him. It also shows Jeanne&#8217;s extreme naivety in getting so involved with him despite her mother&#8217;s suspicions about him.</p>
<p>Samuel Bleistein&#8217;s family are also an interesting example of the dysfunctional family with the volatile on-off relationship between Judith (Ronit Elkabetz) and Samuel&#8217;s son Alex (Mathieu Demy), the contempt show between Samuel and Alex and the estrangement of Alex and his son Nathan (Jérémie Quaegebeur). Although sometimes the scenes with them seemed a bit disjointed from the main narrative.</p>
<p>The use of music and cinematography (by Phillipe Sarde and Julien Hirsch respectively) I thought was also quite inspired, the repeated shot which opens the film of the camera tracking quickly through a metro tunnel draws you in and seems mysterious and dangerous. While the dramatic music imbued everyday scenes such as Jeanne skating through Paris with tension and a sense of foreboding.</p>
<p>Overall an intriguing look at the psychological impact of trauma which also deftly explores notions of guilt (particularly French guilt about the mistreatment of Jews stemming, of course, from the Nazi occupation) responsibilty and innocence. The fact that it leaves many questions unanswered may annoy some though and I would&#8217;ve liked to learn more about Franck and hwo he ended up, whether he sees Jeanne again or not. While the  narrative strand concerning the Bleisteins could&#8217;ve been more coherently linked with the main narrative. Definately worth a look though and it has made me want to explore Téchiné&#8217;s other films.</p>
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<link>http://vitascope.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/new-reel-life-south-week-of-1117/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Terminator: Salvation Director, McG takes control of the cyborg-drenched franchise, and Christian Ba]]></description>
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<p>Director, McG takes control of the cyborg-drenched franchise, and Christian Bale and Sam Worthington snear their way through the action!</p>
<p><strong>Funny People</strong></p>
<p>Writer director Judd Apatow assembles all the usual faces, plus Adam Sandler, for this comedy about&#8230; you guessed it, funny people!</p>
<p><strong>Night at the Museum: Battle at the Smithsonian</strong></p>
<p>Ben Stiller is on board for another loony night in a museum. Robin Williams and Hank Azaria are also on board and do what they generally do.</p>
<p><strong>A Christmas Tale</strong></p>
<p>Another film debuting on DVD with a Criterion release. This time it&#8217;s Arnaud Desplachin&#8217;s international hit. A Christmas Tale. Starring Catherine Deneuve and Mathieu Amalric  it&#8217;s bound to be a WHOLE lot different than our next title&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Four Christmases</strong></p>
<p>Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon and Jon Favreau get together to lampoon X-Mas.</p>
<p><strong>My Effortless Brilliance</strong></p>
<p><em>Humpday</em>, director Lynn Shelton brings us an earlier festival favorite.</p>
<p><strong>Margaret Cho: Beautiful</strong></p>
<p>Concert film from the provocative comic. Nobody&#8217;s safe!</p>
<p><strong>The Exiles</strong></p>
<p>Exciting release of rarely seen film from 1961. Kent Mackenzie&#8217;s film of a night in the life of a group of Native American men in Los Angeles proves to be an illuminating and touching treatment of a little known subject. Deluxe 2-disc edition with a ton of extras.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Chiara Mastroianni]]></title>
<link>http://socasando.com/2009/11/17/chiara-mastroianni/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Raul Arthuso</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Ela lembra alguém.... Esta é Chiara Mastroianni. Hoje eu estava pensando nela por alguns motivos. Pr]]></description>
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<div class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 218px"><img title="Chiara" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Uaxrp_-Co5k/SfkGgc2eNHI/AAAAAAAABAA/LIblq7MCgqo/s400/Chiara+Mastroianni.jpg" alt="" width="208" height="280" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Ela lembra alguém....</p></div>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Esta é Chiara Mastroianni.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Hoje eu estava pensando nela por alguns motivos.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Primeiro por causa do texto do belo texto do nosso querido Vini sobre os <a href="http://socasando.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/alguem-entende-a-psique-das-personagens-dos-filmes-franceses/" target="_blank">franceses</a>. Depois porque além de francesa, ela tem no sangue dois dos maiores &#8220;monumentos&#8221; do cinema europeu: Chiara é filha de Marcello Mastroianni e Catherine Deneuve.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Deve ser horrível parecer tanto assim com os pais quando eles tem tanta história nas costas.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Por isso talvez a persona cinematográfica de Chiara seja tão melancólica. Será?<!--more--></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Só sei que fico &#8220;blue&#8221; quando vejo Chiara na tela. Bate uma tristeza, principalmente na cena que ela canta todas as tristezas em <em>Canções de Amor</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Que seja. Ela é linda e beijá-la é o mais próximo que um heterossexual pode chegar de beijar o Marcello Mastroianni e não ser tachado de gay (Freud explica?).</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Women don't get to define female beauty]]></title>
<link>http://fbardamu.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/women-dont-get-to-define-female-beauty/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ferdinand Bardamu</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got lots of ideas knocking around my skull, but it sometimes takes external stimuli in or]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://fbardamu.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/ilana_mercer1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5480" title="Ilana_Mercer" src="http://fbardamu.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/ilana_mercer1.jpg?w=124" alt="" width="124" height="150" /></a>I&#8217;ve got lots of ideas knocking around my skull, but it sometimes takes external stimuli in order to get them out of my head and in comprehensible form &#8211; like this catty blog post by real-life libertarian girl Ilana Mercer concerning <a href="http://barelyablog.com/?p=17115" target="_self">Christian martyr-cum-amateur porn star Carrie Prejean</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Blond Squad”</strong> is a synonym here for the conservatives’ chick of choice. She <em>can be</em> brunette, although that is not preferable. She <em>has to be</em> dumb.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Prejean’s looks comport with what I’ve termed the <a href="http://barelyablog.com/?p=360" target="blank"><strong>porn aesthetic</strong></a>. She is most certainly not beautiful.</p>
<p>Those who’ve been conditioned to consider beautiful women who look well-used, cheap, unrefined, and whorish even in their youth will object. But you only have to think of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3259930624/nm0000030" target="blank"><strong>Audry Hepburn,</strong></a> or the bare-faced <a href="http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/adc/10111225A~Julie-Christie-Posters.jpg" target="blank"><strong>Julie-Christie</strong></a> to remember what natural, striking beauty is.</p></blockquote>
<p>Following Mercer&#8217;s link leads us to a post where she defines the &#8220;<a href="http://barelyablog.com/?p=360" target="_self">porn aesthetic</a>&#8220;:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8230;they represent what I call the <em>porn aesthetic</em> the essence of which is not true sensuality or real physical beauty, but something that corresponds to the lowest form of sex. They are pornographic phenoms theirs are faces that men want to see on hookers; on women they have plain crude sex with. They look well-used, cheap, unrefined, and whorish even in their youth.</p></blockquote>
<p>That post serves as a teaser for this column she wrote for <em>WorldNetDaily</em>, &#8220;<a href="http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=109" target="_self">Sluts Galore: Scenes from 2006</a>”:</p>
<blockquote><p>Ideas about feminine beauty are bust. The sublime 1350 B.C. bust of Queen Nefertiti showcases her fine cheekbones and graceful neck. Her Western contemporary look-a-like, down to the perfectly shaped dainty face, was Audrey Hepburn. Catherine Deneuve embodied the French ideal of female beauty, immortalized in the bust of Marianne.</p>
<p>But forget these regal beauties; they, apparently, have nothing on the double-chinned, large, flat expanses that make up Britney Spears&#8217; crude mug. Nefertiti, Hepburn, Deneuve—your patrician pulchritude no longer excites the &#8220;porn generation&#8221;; the sly, weasel-like looks of a Paris Hilton do.</p>
<p>The culture&#8217;s aesthetic preferences are now shaped by the basest of instincts. I call it the porn aesthetic, another example of which is Hue Hefner&#8217;s harem of hos. The three kept creatures are currently starring in a reality show called &#8220;The Girls Next Door.&#8221;</p>
<p>According to Wikipedia, &#8220;The prototype of the girl next door is often invoked in American contexts to indicate wholesome, unassuming, or &#8216;average&#8217; femininity.&#8221; Like Ali MacGraw in &#8220;Love Story,&#8221; perhaps? Hef&#8217;s hos have bleached, cotton-candy hair, augmented by extensions, silicone breasts, and demented, syphilitic grins. But according to an entirely new sensibility, they are the girls next door.</p></blockquote>
<p>So, according to Miss Mercer, Carrie Prejean isn&#8217;t beautiful because she looks like a woman that men instinctively want to bang, and Audrey Hepburn IS beautiful because she looked like a woman that men instinctively DIDN&#8217;T want to bang. That&#8217;s a statement so retarded only a <a href="http://fbardamu.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/anecdotal-observations-on-game-women-and-politics/" target="_self">libertarian</a> woman could argue it in earnest.</p>
<p>Both <a href="http://roissy.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/the-feminization-of-the-western-white-male/" target="_self">Roissy</a> and <a href="http://theobsidianfiles.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/onestdv-twilight-no-understanding-of-game/#comment-194" target="_self">Obsidian</a> have argued in the past that women, not men, determine which males are alphas in the context of mating and sex. The flip side of this, by way of <a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FB24Aa01.html" target="_self">Spengler&#8217;s Universal Law of Gender Parity</a>, is that <strong>men, not women, determine which females are beautiful.</strong> The primary purpose of female beauty is to help us men determine who is most worthy of receiving our sperm-missiles, and the yardstick we use to measure it is the penis. The harder the dick, the hotter the girl &#8211; it is that simple. To demonstrate how Mercer is incapable of grasping this concept (like most women), here&#8217;s her picture of the girl she claims &#8220;is most certainly not beautiful&#8221;:</p>
<p><a href="http://fbardamu.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/carrie-prejean-sf4-300x199.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5438" title="carrieprejean" src="http://fbardamu.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/carrie-prejean-sf4-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a></p>
<p>Carrie is a bit more <a href="http://www.femininebeauty.info/carrie-prejean" target="_self">masculine</a> then I&#8217;d like, but I&#8217;d still hit that and come back for seconds, thirds, and fourths &#8211; and so would most normal, non-outlier (read: not David Alexander) dudes. She&#8217;s an 8.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s Audrey Hepburn, a woman Miss Mercer singles out as an example of &#8220;natural, striking beauty&#8221;:</p>
<p><a href="http://fbardamu.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/audreyhepburn.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5439" title="audreyhepburn" src="http://fbardamu.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/audreyhepburn.jpg" alt="" width="272" height="404" /></a></p>
<p>Audrey&#8217;s no slouch face-wise, but she had a body like a prepubescent boy. 7.</p>
<p>And here&#8217;s Mercer&#8217;s other example, Julie Christie:</p>
<p><a href="http://fbardamu.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/10111225ajulie-christie-posters.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5440" title="juliechristie" src="http://fbardamu.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/10111225ajulie-christie-posters.jpg" alt="" width="280" height="350" /></a></p>
<p>I&#8217;d hit it&#8230;with six beers in my system and to break a dry spell. 5, possibly a 6.</p>
<p>Now, I&#8217;m sure some of you are thinking, &#8220;Ferdinand, you reductionist, cock-centered, evo-psych-loving pig-dog, you&#8217;re wrong! In past epochs, women&#8217;s beauty was determined by higher concepts then what men got off to!&#8221; Take your romanticist golden age crap and stick it where the wind breaks. The female beauty ideal has <strong>always</strong> been determined by what men wanted to nail, as Lynne Lawner wrote in <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lives-Courtesans-Lynne-Lawner/dp/084780738X/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1" target="_self">Lives of the Courtesans</a></em>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Falling in love with statues and paintings, even making love to them is an ancient fantasy, one of which the Renaissance was keenly aware. Giorgio Vasari, writing in the introductory section of the Lives about art in antiquity, tells how men violated the laws, going into the temples at night and making love with the statues of Venus. In the morning, priests would enter the sanctuaries to find stains on the marble figures.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://fbardamu.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/venus_de_milo_louvre_ma399_n4.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-5455" title="venusdemilo" src="http://fbardamu.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/venus_de_milo_louvre_ma399_n4.jpg?w=178" alt="" width="178" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>Yes, that&#8217;s right. Those beautiful Greek marble statues that are supposedly symbolic of a higher ideal of beauty? Guys were so turned on by them that they dry-humped them and shot their sticky loads in their crevices. I hope that visual is permanently burned into your brain. And all of those paintings of beautiful women from the Renaissance? They were <a href="http://www.femininebeauty.info/medieval-body-size-preferences" target="_self">the jerk-off fantasies of the men who created them</a>. Yes, we of the male species really do think with our little heads that much.</p>
<p>Now, if Miss Mercer wanted to argue that <a href="http://completebody.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/sterilization-leads-to-an-androgenous-america/" target="_self">women are becoming less feminine</a>, I&#8217;d agree. If she wanted to argue that <a href="http://fbardamu.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/lies-and-misconceptions-about-men-who-date-younger-women/" target="_self">women are becoming more crass and vulgar</a>, I&#8217;d wholeheartedly agree. But the cock doesn&#8217;t care about a woman&#8217;s class or behavior; it just wants a nice, warm, attractive place to snuggle for the night. Mercer&#8217;s notion of &#8220;true&#8221; female beauty springing from something other then what men want to fuck is pure bullshit. Her vision blinded by <a href="http://fbardamu.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/eternal-solipsism-of-the-female-mind/" target="_self">female solipsism</a> and her mind dulled by historical ignorance, she can&#8217;t help but get it wrong.</p>
<p>And, ladies, if you think it&#8217;s unfair that we get to determine what we find attractive in you, keep in mind that it&#8217;s also unfair that you get to determine <a href="http://fbardamu.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/the-fundamentals-of-game/" target="_self">what you find attractive in us</a>. We can&#8217;t help our dicks any more then you can help your pussies. This is the Age of Flesh, where the desires of the loins rule all. I don&#8217;t make the rules, I just point them out.</p>
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<link>http://peregrinomutante.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/english-woman/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tommy Beresford</dc:creator>
<guid>http://peregrinomutante.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/english-woman/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Do Globo Online: Uma ex-prostituta que divulgava suas memórias em um famoso blog &#8211; transformad]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>Uma ex-prostituta que divulgava suas memórias em um famoso blog &#8211; transformado em série de TV &#8211; causou furor na Grã-Bretanha ao revelar sua identidade, mantida em segredo por seis anos.</p>
<p>A autora do blog The Intimate Adventures of a Call Girl (&#8220;As Aventuras Íntimas de uma Garota de Programa&#8221;), que assinava sob o pseudônimo de Belle De Jour &#8211; alusão ao filme homônimo em que Catherine Deneuve faz o papel de uma jovem rica que frequenta um bordel &#8211; é uma oncologista de 34 anos da cidade de Bristol, especialista em câncer infantil.</p>
<p>Brooke Magnanti, que <strong>diz ter trabalhado como prostituta de luxo para bancar seus estudos de doutorado</strong>, resolveu revelar sua identidade ao jornal &#8220;The Sunday Times&#8221; porque não queria mais &#8220;esse segredo massivo&#8221; pesando sobre seus ombros.</p></blockquote>
<p>Leia mais sobre a história <a target="_blank" href="http://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/mat/2009/11/16/cientista-britanica-revela-ser-prostituta-blogueira-belle-de-jour-914782977.asp">clicando aqui</a>. </p>
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<title><![CDATA[Brooke Magnanti, la médica-prostituta que inspiró una serie de televisión]]></title>
<link>http://solitariogeorge.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/brooke-magnanti-la-medica-prostituta-que-inspiro-una-serie-de-television/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>solitariogeorge</dc:creator>
<guid>http://solitariogeorge.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/brooke-magnanti-la-medica-prostituta-que-inspiro-una-serie-de-television/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Es una decisión valiente para Belle de Jour presentar su verdadera identidad Una científica británic]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[} Mostra gratuita de cinema francês @ Centro da Cultura Judaica]]></title>
<link>http://sproad.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/mostra-gratuita-de-cinema-frances-centro-da-cultura-judaica/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Juliana Gomes</dc:creator>
<guid>http://sproad.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/mostra-gratuita-de-cinema-frances-centro-da-cultura-judaica/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Por Juliana Gomes } Nos dias 17 e 18 de Novembro, acontece a Mostra gratuita de cinema francês @ Cen]]></description>
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<p><em>Por Juliana Gomes</em></p>
<p>} Nos dias 17 e 18 de Novembro, acontece a <strong>Mostra gratuita de cinema francês</strong> @ <strong>Centro da Cultura Judaica</strong>.</p>
<p>Em comemoração ao Ano da França no Brasil, o Centro da Cultura Judaica exibe gratuitamente, nos dias 17 e 18 de novembro, a partir das 16h, o projeto Cine Multicultural. Serão exibidas sete produções francesas que, de alguma forma, retratam a cultura judaica naquele país. Entre os destaques está<strong> “O Último Metrô”</strong>, de 1980, um dos últimos e melhores filmes do diretor <strong>François Truffaut, com Catherine Deneuve e Gérard Depardieu</strong> nos papéis principais.</p>
<p>Temas como relações humanas, imigração e guerra estão presentes também em filmes de François Dupeyron, Karin Albou, Claude Berri, Louis Malle, além do premiado Alain Resnais.</p>
<p>O Cine Multicultural faz parte da programação do <strong>7º Ciclo Multicultural</strong>, tradicional projeto do CCJ, que engloba diversas atividades e que nesta edição homenageia o Ano da França no Brasil, promovendo a integração entre as culturas brasileiras, judaicas e francesas.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#008000;">17 de Novembro, Terça-feira</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#008000;">16h00</span> &#124; FILME: “UMA AMIZADE SEM FRONTEIRAS”<br />
Gênero: </strong>Drama &#124;<strong> Direção:</strong> François Dupeyron &#124; <strong>País/Ano:</strong> França/2003<br />
<strong>Classificação :</strong> a partir de 16 anos &#124; <strong>Duração:</strong> 95 minutos<br />
<strong>Elenco:</strong> Omar Sharif, Pierre Boulanger, Gilbert Melki, Isabelle Renauld</p>
<address><strong><span style="color:#008000;">18h00</span> &#124; FILME: “A PEQUENA JERUSALÉM”</strong></address>
<address><strong>Gênero: </strong>Drama &#124;<strong> Direção:</strong> Karin Albou &#124; <strong>País/Ano:</strong> França/2005<br />
<strong>Classificação:</strong> a partir de 14 anos &#124; <strong>Duração:</strong> 99 minutos<br />
<strong>Elenco:</strong> Fanny Valette (César de Atriz Revelação em 2006), Elsa Zylberstein, Bruno Todeschini, Hedi Tillette</address>
<address><strong><span style="color:#008000;">20h00</span> &#124; FILME: “NOITE E NEBLINA”<br />
Gênero: </strong>Drama /Documentário&#124;<strong> Direção:</strong> Alain Resnais<strong> </strong>&#124; <strong>País/Ano:</strong> França/1955<br />
<strong>Classificação:</strong> a partir de 16 anos &#124; <strong>Duração:</strong> 32 minutos<br />
<strong>Elenco:</strong> Michel Bouquet (narração)</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#008000;">21h00</span> &#124; FILME: “LUCIE AUBRAC – UM AMOR EM TEMPO DE GUERRA”<br />
Gênero: </strong>Drama <strong>&#124; Direção:</strong> Claude Berri &#124; <strong>País/Ano:</strong> França/1997<br />
<strong>Classificação:</strong> a partir de 16 anos &#124; <strong>Duração:</strong> 115 minutos<br />
<strong>Elenco:</strong> Carole Bouquet, Daniel Auteuil, Patrice Chéreau, Jean-Roger Milo</p>
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<p><span style="color:#008000;"><strong>18  de Novembro, Quarta-feira</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#008000;">16h00</span> &#124; FILME: “AS LOUCAS AVENTURAS DE RABBI JACOB”<br />
Gênero: </strong>Comédia <strong>&#124; Direção:</strong> Gérard Oury &#124; País/Ano: França/ 1973<br />
<strong>Classificação:</strong> Livre &#124; <strong>Duração:</strong> 100 minutos<br />
<strong>Elenco:</strong> Louis de Funès, Marcel Dalio</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#008000;">18h00</span> &#124; FILME: “ADEUS MENINOS”<br />
Gênero: </strong>Drama<strong> &#124; Direção:</strong> Louis Malle &#124; <strong>País/Ano:</strong> França/1987<br />
<strong>Classificação:</strong> a partir de 16 anos &#124; <strong>Duração:</strong> 103 minutos<br />
<strong>Elenco:</strong> Raphael Fejto, Gaspard Manesse</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#008000;">20h00</span> &#124;</strong> <strong>FILME: “O ÚLTIMO METRÔ”<br />
Gênero: </strong>Drama/Romance<strong> </strong>&#124; <strong>Direção:</strong> François Truffaut &#124;<strong>País/Ano:</strong> França/1980<br />
<strong>Classificação:</strong> a partir de 16 anos &#124; <strong>Duração:</strong> 131 minutos<br />
<strong>Elenco:</strong> Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Andréa Ferréol, René Dupré</p>
<address><span style="color:#008000;"><strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">COMO? ONDE? QUANDO?</span></strong></span></address>
<address><span style="color:#008000;"><strong><span style="color:#ff6600;"><a href="http://culturajudaica.uol.com.br/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;">Centro da Cultura Judaica</span></a></span></strong></span></address>
<address><span style="color:#008000;"><strong><span style="color:#ff6600;"><span style="color:#000000;">Onde? <span style="color:#808080;">R. Oscar Freire, 2500 &#8211; (Estação Sumaré do metrô)</span></span></span></strong></span></address>
<address><span style="color:#008000;"><strong><span style="color:#ff6600;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#808080;"><span style="color:#000000;">Quando? <span style="color:#808080;">Dias 17 e 18 de Novembro (terça-feira e quarta-feira)</span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></address>
<address><span style="color:#008000;"><strong><span style="color:#ff6600;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#808080;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#808080;"><span style="color:#000000;">Quanto?<span style="color:#808080;"> Entrada Gratuita (ingressos devem ser retirados com uma hora de antecedência)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></address>
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<title><![CDATA[Les Parapluies de Cherbourg]]></title>
<link>http://ithinkyourelovely.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/les-parapluies-de-cherbourg/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ithinkyourelovely</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I overheard a street performer playing this song on his violin today on my way to class, it made me ]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;">I overheard a street performer playing this song on his violin today on my way to class, it made me feel all warm and fuzzy because i just love this film and Catherine Deveuve so much.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Musketeer]]></title>
<link>http://filmsaddiction.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/the-musketeer/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>amore</dc:creator>
<guid>http://filmsaddiction.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/the-musketeer/</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[The 20th century Venus of Urbino - Part II: Vitti, Dunaway, Deneuve]]></title>
<link>http://panathinaeos.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/the-20th-century-venus-of-urbino-part-ii-vitti-dunaway-deneuve/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>panathinaeos</dc:creator>
<guid>http://panathinaeos.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/the-20th-century-venus-of-urbino-part-ii-vitti-dunaway-deneuve/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I continue with the journey I started yesterday, nominating the candidates for the 20th century Venu]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>I continue with the journey I started yesterday, nominating the candidates for the 20th century Venus of Urbino. Today I present Monica Vitti, Faye Dunaway and Catherine Deneuve.</p>
<p>The axiom that guides this contribution is that what makes the Urbino Venus unique and classical is her ambivalence and unpredictability. We have to do in a sense with a naked Mona Lisa, only in this case the whole body is the protagonist of the posture, not just the mouth and the eyes.</p>
<p><strong><em>Monica Vitti</em></strong></p>
<p>Waiting for Godot&#8230;</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2578" title="vitti2" src="http://panathinaeos.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/vitti2.jpg" alt="vitti2" width="418" height="243" />A pensive look in the mirror</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2579" title="annex-vitti-monica_02" src="http://panathinaeos.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/annex-vitti-monica_02.jpg" alt="annex-vitti-monica_02" width="417" height="505" />Que sera sera!</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2580" title="vitti3" src="http://panathinaeos.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/vitti3.jpg" alt="vitti3" width="350" height="482" /><strong><em>Faye Dunaway</em></strong></p>
<p>I knew I was overdressed!</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2581" title="big-1967-faye-dunaway" src="http://panathinaeos.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/big-1967-faye-dunaway.jpg" alt="big-1967-faye-dunaway" width="418" height="572" /></p>
<p>May you go quiet into the night</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2582" title="dunaway2" src="http://panathinaeos.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/dunaway2.jpg" alt="dunaway2" width="418" height="567" />Elegance</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2583" title="a1968-faye-dunaway-thomas-crown-2" src="http://panathinaeos.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/a1968-faye-dunaway-thomas-crown-2.jpg" alt="a1968-faye-dunaway-thomas-crown-2" width="398" height="592" /><strong><em>Catherine Deneuve</em></strong></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2585" title="deneuve1" src="http://panathinaeos.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/deneuve1.jpg" alt="deneuve1" width="418" height="320" />She has been a beauty since her early days</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2586" title="helmut_newton_catherine_deneuve" src="http://panathinaeos.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/helmut_newton_catherine_deneuve.jpg" alt="helmut_newton_catherine_deneuve" width="418" height="634" />In front of Helmut Newton&#8217;s lens she is the captivating eternal beauty.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2587" title="catherine1" src="http://panathinaeos.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/catherine1.jpg" alt="catherine1" width="418" height="617" />I can spend a whole life looking at her without wanting to look at anything else!</p>
<p>As an epilogue to part 2, I remind everyone the lyrics of the song from the Umbrellas of Cherbourg.</p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial;"><em><strong>I Will Wait For You </strong>(Norman Gimbel/ Jacques Demy/ Michel Legrand)</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial;"><em><strong> If it takes forever I will wait for you<br />
For a thousand summers I will wait for you<br />
Till you&#8217;re back beside me, till I&#8217;m holding you<br />
Till I hear you sigh here in my arms</strong></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial;"><em><strong> </strong></em></span><em><strong>Anywhere you wander, anywhere you go<br />
Every day remember how I love you so<br />
In your heart believe what in my heart I know<br />
That forevermore I&#8217;ll wait for you</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>The clock will tick away the hours one by one<br />
Then the time will come when all the waiting&#8217;s done<br />
The time when you return and find me here and run<br />
Straight to my waiting arms</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>If it takes forever I will wait for you<br />
For a thousand summers I will wait for you<br />
Till you&#8217;re here beside me, till I&#8217;m touching you<br />
And forevermore sharing your love</strong></em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[33 1/3 Memories: Sweeney Todd]]></title>
<link>http://robertjamesbell.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/33-13-memories-sweeney-todd/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>robertjamesbell</dc:creator>
<guid>http://robertjamesbell.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/33-13-memories-sweeney-todd/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sweeney Todd: obscure Canadian band, and the first chance at fame for Bryan Adams.  If Wishes Were H]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[i think about]]></title>
<link>http://fashionrenegade.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/i-think-about-6/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>fashionrenegade</dc:creator>
<guid>http://fashionrenegade.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/i-think-about-6/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[au revoir simone/ catherine deneuve/bob dylan /garance doré/face hunter http://www.garancedore.fr]]></description>
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<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1936" title="blonde_on_blonde_" src="http://fashionrenegade.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/blonde_on_blonde_.jpg" alt="blonde_on_blonde_" width="475" height="475" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1938" title="tumblr_kq6ufi0ZLC1qznym2o1_500_large" src="http://fashionrenegade.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/tumblr_kq6ufi0zlc1qznym2o1_500_large.jpg" alt="tumblr_kq6ufi0ZLC1qznym2o1_500_large" width="480" height="629" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1939" title="new-york-style2" src="http://fashionrenegade.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/new-york-style2.jpg" alt="new-york-style2" width="480" height="719" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1943" title="bondi-girl-dusk1" src="http://fashionrenegade.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/bondi-girl-dusk1.jpg" alt="bondi-girl-dusk1" width="480" height="720" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1944" title="IMG_3268" src="http://fashionrenegade.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/img_3268.jpg" alt="IMG_3268" width="480" height="640" /></p>
<p><span style="color:#33cccc;">au revoir simone/ catherine deneuve/bob dylan /garance doré/face hunter</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#33cccc;">http://www.garancedore.fr</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Jour 29: "Repulsion"]]></title>
<link>http://bipolaires.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/jour-29-repulsion/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>leboucherduwestisland</dc:creator>
<guid>http://bipolaires.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/jour-29-repulsion/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[﻿﻿ Comme j’adore le mois d’Octobre, l’Halloween et les films d’horreur, j’ai décidé de faire le prem]]></description>
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<p><span style="color:#ff9900;"><em>Comme j’adore le mois d’Octobre, l’Halloween et les films d’horreur, j’ai décidé de faire le premier <strong>Horreur-o-thon des Bipolaires</strong>! En effet, j’écouterai un film de peur par jour jusqu’au 31, alors revenez lire mes critiques quotidiennes…si vous en avez le courage! MOUAHAHAHAAA!</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff9900;">————</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff9900;">Le plus vieux film sur ma liste (1965) était<strong> Repulsion</strong> de Roman &#8220;Fraîchement Arrêté&#8221; Polanski et m&#8217;a été recommandé par Mr. Love.  Mettant en vedette une jeune Catherine Deneuve dans le rôle de Carole, une fille distante et étrange,<strong> Repulsion</strong> est davantage un drame psychologique qu&#8217;un film d&#8217;horreur, alors qu&#8217;on est témoin de la lente psychose de Carole, qui vit seul dans son petit appartement. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff9900;">En effet, plus le récit avance et plus le spectateur est détaché du personnage de Carole, ne devenant que simple témoin à sa folie de plus en plus envahissante.  Ainsi, ceci permet à Polanski de présenter plusieurs séquences surréelles telles que des murs se transformant en pâte d&#8217;où des mains en émergent ou une scène de viol (qui n&#8217;en est pas un) en silence total.  Bref, bien que le film soit très lent et que les séquences du genre soient plutôt rares, l&#8217;atmosphère lourde et le récit intriguant en fait un film à voir pour les mordus de cinéma de l&#8217;époque. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>Note finale: 7.5/10</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff9900;">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>Meilleure citation: </strong>Pas beaucoup de dialogues dans ce film. &#8220;I&#8217;ll go get her some brandy!&#8221; dit par le vieux fou qui pense que du brandy va aider une femme morte. Indice: ce n&#8217;est pas le cas.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>Meilleure mort: </strong>Le proprio très envahissant a ce qu&#8217;il mérite de façon assez brutale (environ une trentaine de coups de lame de rasoir!).</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>Y&#8217;as-tu des tits?!: </strong>Non, mais Catherine Deneuve montre un peu de peau (genre un dos et une demie fesse).</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>Saviez-vous que&#8230;:</strong> Le film contient le premier orgasme féminin (son seulement) à avoir passé le comité de censure britannique? Un petit pas pour l&#8217;homme, mais un gémissement de géant pour la femme.</span></p>
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