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The beguiled

. USA, 1971.

Director: Don Siegel


Screenwriters: Albert Maltz and Irene Kamp, from the novel by Thomas Cullinan


Cast: Clint Eastwood , Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris


Thematic interest: repression, obsession


Synopsis:

During the American Civil War, John McBurney, a soldier in northern troops, is injured. Death saves him from a girl who leads him to a school for girls governed solely by women. Martha, the director decides to take care of him until his wound heals, which will force him to go on crutches for a while and then plans to deliver to the southern authorities, but is putting off the idea, fearing that means a death sentence, and perhaps also because, like the rest of the teachers and students of the boarding school, is attracted to him.

Comment:

John is enclosed in a group of attractive women who are both their saving and their jailers. Recovering from serious injuries, is totally at their mercy: they can at any time send him to military prison, where he died in all likelihood. In a very shrewd, takes advantage of what is commonly called the arms of women, although men also sometimes used: seduction. We can guess from the beginning that John is a rascal and a troublemaker well aware of its appeal and was probably used to playing with women and in civilian life, but now depends on the ability of their game to stay alive.

The first element in this story interesting is that we see a man seen as sexual objects in a way very similar to as is the female characters in traditional stories. Unable for his convalescence from using any other talent apart from the seduction and forced to accept a passive role, John is girl in the movie. Women, meanwhile, are shown as desiring subjects and sexual predators, reversing again the classic gender roles. Finally put on the table, something very unusual for almost 40 years, women have a sexuality and feel desire. It is true that this desire and this reversal of roles is seen as something negative and threatening, but would have to discuss whether what is presented as something unhealthy is sexuality in women or rather the suppression of the sexuality in the strict boarding school in action takes place.

The seductive

is a cloudy film that enjoys wallowing in the rough: Martha, director of the internship, repress their sexuality because of the incestuous relationship he had with his brother, whom we see in flashbacks go back of all women at your fingertips. Abandoned by him, his repressed desire is directed both to the attractive prisoner of the north and to his right hand in the business, Edwina. His proposition to become his partner at the beginning of the film makes us feel something more than a job offer, and that lesbian attraction is shown clearly in the dreams of Martha. When two objects of desire, John and Edwina, attract each other, Martha will take revenge by becoming the personification of castration.

The film would have easily provided simply misogynist and morbid fantasy, especially given the lack of subtlety with which the script makes obvious sexual metaphors, but for the ambiguous character of Clint Eastwood. The good work of the actor prevents easy identification of the viewer with the victim's captivity, a simpleton scheme in which if fell Misery, another story of castrating women with much in common with it, in this story there are no good or bad all lie and use others, though some have upper hand and hold power, in this case matriarchal, and the other uses the picaresque to subvert that power. Top Scenes

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• saving John and his little hiding from troops in the south. The soldier asks the young girl her age. When she meets twelve years, John replies that it is old enough to be kissed and gives his first kiss on the mouth. This scene, which went unnoticed at the time, would be absolutely unthinkable in a current movie.
  

• expected Martha to John in his bedroom after having had the key to be present in it overnight. The soldier goes completely naked and placed in the bed of the woman. Soon discovered a third occupant in the bed: it is Edwina, the scene is happening only in the dreams of Martha.
  

• John does not believe that the cause of the amputation of his leg was therapeutic but sees it as a punishment and a symbolic castration by Martha. When a woman gives laudanum to relieve pain, replies: better not, lest I fall asleep and make you to cut .... (eloquent pause) ... the other leg.
  

Anecdotes:

• Apparently the project was the brainchild of Clint Eastwood himself, seduced by the novel on which the film is based. Both he and Don Siegel, the director, had to fight to keep the end they wanted for the story, from the pressures of the production.

• According to IMDB, Siegel said this is his favorite among his films as director.

• However, the production company tried to launch the film as a western action and the box office did not respond when faced with something very different from what was announced by advertising.

About the director:

Don Siegel (Chicago 1912 - California 1991) studied in England before starting a career as a director of B movies, among them probably the most remembered is the original version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers . From the 60's would specialize in westerns and action movies that made him famous, especially those featuring their favorite actor, Clint Eastwood, as The human jungle, Dirty Harry or Two Mules for Sister Sara .

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Les nuits pleine lune the . France, 1984.

Director and Screenwriter: Eric Rohmer

Cast: Pascale Ogier , Tcheky Karyo, Fabrice Luchini

Subjects of interest: free love, adultery

Synopsis:

Louise a young art student, has an apartment in central Paris. Her boyfriend, Remi, want to move to live with her in a larger apartment in the suburbs. She agrees but refuses to get rid of his old apartment, which of actually prefer to stay on the weekends to the chagrin of Remi.

Comment:

Louise and Remi are to but want very different things in a relationship: a Remi likes it all the time with his girl, while Louise wants to have his space, such Once he is not prepared to compromise, perhaps because her boyfriend does not want to enough, or maybe because it's an independent woman and Remi is not the right man for her. To be sure what she wants, she plans to spend each weekend by his side, he in his apartment in a quiet residential area on the outskirts, she enjoyed the hustle and Parisian nightlife. Remi thinks that while the intention of his bride to be good, you end up knowing another man during his nights of partying, or you may already know: the young man not a little suspicious of Pascal, a friend of Louise that continually throws yew more or less disguised.

The full moon addresses a problem as common as is the search for alternatives to a stereotype ideal partner for many people it does not work, the story takes place in the 80 in which the questioning of the traditional family and the pursuit of free love seems to have finally buried, there seems to be more alternatives than monogamous couples should occupy 100% of the living space of the person, or loneliness and the search for a different lover every night. The protagonist of the film finds the ideal, a link off that allows social stereotypes while giving and receiving affection without renouncing their independence. Perhaps because they are too young, Louise is very innocent, not just think it's so easy to break the rules, but not realize that Pascal wants to make her his mistress.

faster reading of the film is that these modern approaches about a relative freedom within the couple are doomed to failure, but a more detailed analysis of the behavior of characters and the causes of this failure found that Louise intended to be sincere and an open living a double life outside of her boyfriend while the male characters, Pascal and Remi, representatives and advocates of traditional family are also living this double life but in a hidden and hypocritical. While apparently, according to a conservative reading, Louise does not want her boyfriend enough to go and live with him, just finishing the story (SPOILER) that her feelings are much more sincere and deeper than his.

As most of Rohmer's films, this is a very simple film shot almost entirely indoors, whose strength lies only in the dialogues, characters and conflicts posed timeless and universal.

Top Scenes:

• Louise has a date with a boy she has met at a party, when you go to meet him, suddenly appears Pascale, showing plainly revealing jealous and wants to lie down with it.

Anecdotes:

• was presented at the Venice Film Festival 1984, which won the award for best actress for Pascale Ogier. Later achieved major awards nominations Caesar (Best film, director, actress, supporting actor and screenplay), but ended up leaving empty.

About Director: Eric Rohmer

(Nancy, France, 1920 -) is, together with François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol and Jean-Luc Godard , one of the key names called nouvelle vague , who revolutionized French cinema in the early 60's and laid the foundations of modern cinema worldwide. The fame comes mainly because of its famous sagas, such as morality tales (of which part Love after noon), the comedies and proverbs (which belongs The full moon) or stories of the four seasons , that surprised by the naturalness of the dialogue, the result of hard work semiimprovisación prior to the actors, their long sequence shots and the great feeling of verisimilitude. Rohmer's talent to build stories from minimal elements, based on a principal in the dialogue, has been enormously influential, much imitated by independent filmmakers, and rarely equaled. Sex in movies is a common source of moral conflicts that the characters try to analyze long talks.

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Scrambled Breakfast at Tiffany jewelry, sweet and prostitution

Breakfast at Tiffany's . USA, 1961.

Director: Blake Edwards

Screenwriter: George Axelrod, based on the novel by Truman Capote

Performers: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Martin Balsam

Thematic interest: prostitution

Synopsis:

Paul Varjak, a young-minded writer, who makes a living maintained by the wife of a wealthy man who offers him moving to New York. Upon arrival is introduced into the whirlwind life of her great neighbor, Holly Golighty, an aspiring actress hustler so foolish as tender.

Comment:

Breakfast at Tiffany's is based on a novella in which Truman Capote cleverly blended with a touch romance acids do not quite fit for Hollywood at the time. The challenge for the director Blake Edwards out more than it was getting windy a product comparable to the still powerful censorship of the time without diluting the rich material of the story. To achieve opted for a sophisticated high comedy treatment tailored to Audrey Hepburn, one without the touch Golighty Holly suburban literary character, is surrounded by the famous music by Henry M ancini and a colorful New York almost pop, this package softens but does not eliminate raw aspects of the story of a girl who flirts with the criminal underworld that lives on the edge of prostitution.

is often read that this film is about a prostitute. Holly does not receive calls of customers, but lives at night, has no known occupation and certainly use their charms to be surrounded by rich men who pay for their expenses in return for the promise of a sexual encounter her at the last moment with more or less elusive skill, as she dreams of marrying a millionaire so dumbest possible. It is a perfect character to illustrate a discussion about where the woman ends up and where begins the prostitute, much of the interest of Holly is unpredictable and random in their future, something she is well aware: it moves in a thin line between everything and nothing, be a model of femininity and social success or fall into the most abject marginalization.

Breakfast at Tiffany's is the story of the fascination that this girl has on everyone, but particularly on its neighbor, an aspiring young writer for the turmoil of waves and light Holly highbrow and pessimistic vision of things. The film embellishes and heterosexualized a character in the novel, narrated in first person, was an obvious alter ego of Capote himself, and transforms it into a very handsome lover. But it introduces an element not present in the novel: Paul, the writer, lives of women like Holly men. Furthermore, it appears as a passive character who agrees to be used by the girl, who even changed its name to put his brother, and masculinity called into question in shades like being called baby by another man, Holly agent, or enter one of the suitors of this in a bathroom, a situation whose potential would not have been avoided homosexual in a movie today . For he never fails to be a bit grating to separate the character of this tradition in comedy of man before the woman submissive type charismatic Bringing Up Baby and adopt by the end of the story a dominant and conventional pose .

The unquestionable merit Breakfast at Tiffany is have slipped to the censorship of the time a love story between two characters living in a certain way of prostitution, have a bittersweet story about a character at once frivolous, tender and cruel you are looking for a place in a complicated world, and convert it, without distorting it in a romantic comedy. The allure of Audrey Hepburn is a key element in this success, and so is the splashing the story with inserts very much in Blake Edwards, the sequence of an extravagant celebration, all a test of a director's later work, The shindig. Scenes

Highlights:

• Its interesting neighbor presents Paul explaining that your cat has a name as its owner does not get stabilized in their lives and find a place that is as comfortable as Tiffany & Co. jewelry

• Holly interrupted, while inspired by the work of his neighbor singing with his guitar in a typical step New York fire one of the most famous in film history, Moon river Henry Mancini of .

Paul and Holly
• embark on a bitter argument in which the young, drunk, asked to accept their money because it is used to keep women. He, cutting, replied that because it saves her unattractive suitor is a very hard earned. She fulminant replicates: takes exactly four seconds to get from here to the door. I give you two.

Anecdotes: Al

• major blockbuster hit by the film, joined two Oscars for best score and best song for Henry Mancini, and three more nominations : best actress, adapted screenplay and art direction.

• apparently composed Mancini Moon River on purpose so that could be sung by Audrey Hepburn, who had no musical training. An executive proposed cutting the sequence in who sings that song so stupid , to which Hepburn said that over his dead body.

• Apparently Truman Capote always thought Marilyn Monroe for the role of Holly Golighty, but the famous teacher Lee Strasberg actors recommended the actress who will not accept it. Interestingly, Audrey Hepburn did not look in the paper and thought to have been chosen as a casting error. About

director:

Blake Edwards (Oklahoma, 1922) works as an actor and screenwriter before becoming one of the major architects of Hollywood over the years 60. After hits like Breakfast at Tiffany and Days of Wine and Roses , their confrontations with the studies weaken his career, will not live a new splendor to the early 80's with the perfect woman 10 and Victor / Victoria , his only Oscar nomination. In the sophisticated comedy that made him famous sexual misunderstandings abound and approaches on issues of gender roles.

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