The film won the Grand Prix at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.
The film had a good critical reception, and occasioned much comment on Béart’s frank onscreen nudity and Rivette’s characteristic use of an extreme running time.
Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert added the film to his Great Movies collection in April 2009
Let me state that while I love sex, I dislike pornography. That said, I do appreciate certain aspects of pornography.
There is an immediate, primal charge in the explicit penetration. It’s the knowledge that the people on-screen are actually fucking and not simulating.
However, this usually evolves into twenty minutes of repetitive close-ups of genital corkscrewing and […]
An algorithm that mimics the styles of some of history’s greatest painters has been developed by researchers in Germany.
The technique is impressive in itself but it’s not simply another case of machines showing how they can out-dazzle humans at their own game. Rather, it’s designed to demonstrate exactly how these types of neural networks can […]
My friend Joy St James. Postmodern Moll Flanders, adventuress, sinner, explorer, yogani. Recovering prude, former nerd, brainy bimbo…
Follow her on Medium.
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Can a simple selfie really tell you when you’re going to die?
Not quite, but the emerging field of facial analytics can give you and your insurance company an educated guess.
According to a recent study, facial features are the best indicator of this ‘true’ age. The Face Aging Group at the University of North […]
Albert Watson has made his mark as one of the world’s most successful fashion and commercial photographers during the last four decades…
From article:
Which is more damaging to the women’s cause, the highly conceptualised and meticulously edited Playboy, or the atrociously lively and totally amoral internet? True, Playboy venerated a simplistic and limiting idea of womanhood, but it was never unkind. Pornography involves violence and coercion: there was none of that here. Internet porn is a poor […]
I haven’t updated my blog for the last few days (Quotes of the Day, other posts etc) while I completely rethink/revamp this blog.
I am moving from mainly curating – which has been fine, you got to know more about me and what goes on in my head (!) and what I do in my work […]
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