![]() Were about real people, not events or things. Very much how things are when a couple are genuinely comfortable Matter-of-fact, the casual attitude to nudity reflecting Was usually portrayed in a manner that in early 80s Britainįelt startling in its explicitness, but also honest and refreshingly That start well enough but gradually descend into either In the late 1970s and early 1980s were about relationships It seemed that several of the films in which Depardieu appeared This oafish-looking but oddly charming and hugely talented We emerged from the cinema wanting to see more of Legs tightly crossed by the end of The Last Woman.īoth films made an impression, but the most consistentlyĬompelling element was not the content, but the actor who Sure enough,ĭomination scenes and every male in the audience had their It was playing onĪ double bill with Marco Ferreri's The Last Woman,Ī film with a reputation all of its own, one centred aroundĪ climactic (no pun intended) penile amputation. It's probably best not toĮlaborate on that particular calling. Maitress, drawn in part by the reputation After playing it safe forĪ few weeks, we decided to take a chance on something called When a friend of mine and I regularly attended double-billsĪt London's Scala cinema. First discovered the films of Gerard Depardieu back in 1980,
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