Word: delights
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...Butley's students; now, he is an assistant lecturer worried about his promotion who shares who both office and apartment with his mentor. He is also a homosexual. Watching these two English scholars as they struggle their way through their forensic and clearly intimate friendship is a delight. Early in the first act, Ben badgers Joey with questions about his new found friend, Reg, a brawny football and cooking enthusiast from Leeds, commenting. "My natural force plays excitingly with your natural submissiveness." But running beneath the wisecracks and put-downs is a strong undercurrent of jealousy, that grows stronger...
...customary, and contains some comic relief in the person of Chiba's chuckleheaded pal, called Ratnose. Connoisseurs of the etiquette of male affection in films will notice the hero's farewell to the dying Ratnose-giving his nostrils a hearty but melancholy pull-with some guarded delight...
...Sallor's Delight...
...nothing else, living off campus necessitates becoming one's own caretaker and meeting added responsibilities. But the additional obligations, such as buying food, paying rent and utilities bills and dealing with other domestic tasks, appear to be outweighed by the delight of being able to leave Harvard every day and relaxing within the confines of one's own home...
...film does achieve one of its goals. Its exquisite photography makes it truly erotic, at least for a while. Shot in Bangkok, the film is stunningly exotic and a constant visual delight, and Jaeckin placed the most beautiful bodies he could find against this rich background. He knows how to make women and scenery look breathtaking. Yet he relies so heavily on static concepts of photography that the effects wears off rather quickly. His characters seem posed and reposed for visual effect, instead of directed for dramatic effect, so that the action bogs down after the first half hour. Aimless...