Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...call Augustine a 'sexually repressed monk' is just too funny. Have you read his Confessions'? Parts of it are better than Confidential. But the point is that, through wrestling with the problem of sexual lust, he came to discover God, and to discover himself in the presence...
...Judd, Roddy McDowall and, even more, Dean Stockwell, give brilliant performances. But the dozens of moments are not cumulative. Except as a history of a master-and-slave relationship, of an Artie who, devoid of normal feeling, must subsist on diseased sensation, and a Judd slowly driven by sexual feeling into becoming Artie's companion in evil-except, in other words, for what has happened before Compulsion begins-its materials permit no inner development. Balked of psychological progression, or even moral catharsis. Compulsion can only-during its very protracted trial scene-fall back on sociological debate. For a Clarence...
...earlier books sex was at least intermittently pleasant, it now seems to have become a wearisome compulsion to be borne like kleptomania or a facial tic. And where characters used to get involved with each other in reasonably manageable triangles and quadrangles, in this book Author Sagan's sexual geometry clearly has got out of hand. The pack of people who meet at the home of Alain Maligrasse, an editor in a Paris publishing firm, have one common denominator: they are in love with people who are in love with someone else...
...American theatergoer has come, over the past few years, to expect a certain sexual frankness in every European film, and his expectations will again be realized if he goes to see the latest French-Italian export to Boston, Passionate Summer...
This improbable, naturalist effort maintains an atmosphere of sexual tension throughout its entire length, and for those who are looking for something a bit out of the ordinary, director Charles Brabant has arranged for a rather detailed filming of the birth of a goat to lead up to its climactic point...