The Marquise of O
- measured
Neutral, measured, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
Our read · The Marquise of O (1976) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · romance · french entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of The Marquise of O
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a restrained Rohmer drama of unexplained pregnancy and aristocratic honor codes.”
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The reading.
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