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Posted by Dain, Monday, March 17, 2008 12:12 PM (Eastern)
I love how she yowls, "I'm not living with you,
we just occupy the same cage, that's all."
we just occupy the same cage, that's all."
Cabochard is not sufficiently unique from Bandit, with all those angles hammered into submission, and I like those angles, it's like watching Madonna videos, an attitude that stuns. Diorling, on the other hand, is a tame leather chypre, an entirely different animal, very ladylike and proper. If she's naughty, it's behind closed doors, all those disturbing tendencies smoothed under fine silk and flowers and tinkling crystal. She is high maintenance, that's all. It's the ultimate flirtation: leather comes first, like a slap from a glove, followed by a conciliatory bouquet of jasmine, rose, and iris, slightly sharp and fresh, and a quick kiss that brings one closer to over-powdered skin, and of course the rhythmic warmth of oakmoss and vetiver. Categorically, it owes much to Bandit, but I also find it not dissimilar to Cuir de Russie, in that Diorling also seems to belong to another era, before female emancipation made discretion an outmoded genre.
I daresay this is only the reorchestration, but it is still magnificent, I'm simply a fan of leathery chypres. A pity you can only get in Paris.
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March 17, 2008 11:14 PM,
I suppose it's a sign of age, but I kept thinking, poor kid. Of course in real life, I don't see any man turning her down, not even someone who looks like Paul Newman.
March 18, 2008 11:30 AM,
Really? I feel sorry for her too. I believe in the play it's implied that he's gay. The movie is great, though you can definitely sense that it's structured around a play, the way everything seems to happen in just one room, though maybe it's a sign of the golden age of Hollywood starting to disappear. It's funny to think that Paul Newman now makes organic pasta sauces and salad dressings somewhere in northern New England.
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