Entr'acte #3

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• Douglas Arthur says:

  May 3, 2009 at 11:58 pm

  I’m sens­ing a theme.

• Eric Lowe says:

  May 4, 2009 at 4:29 pm

  Masseur train­ing film?

• larry aydlette says:

  May 4, 2009 at 8:49 pm

  I’m not sure what film this is from, but I know that Schrader stole/homaged it for a scene in American Gigolo. That scene is about all I can remem­ber from the film, except for the Blondie song.

• Ed Howard says:

  May 5, 2009 at 10:23 am

  Unless I’m mis­taken, these shots are all from Godard’s great *A Married Woman*, in which sexu­al­ity and desire are con­densed into abstrac­ted, dis­con­nec­ted images, the body chopped-up and rarely allowed to exist as a whole. It’s a great film, and it has long been the miss­ing link in Godard’s 60s oeuvre, con­demned to lousy pub­lic domain releases until the recent Masters of Cinema disc in the UK.
  Interestingly, there are very sim­il­ar shots in Agnes Varda’s *Le bon­heur*, which came out only a year later. When I saw the Varda film, I wondered if she was aware of Godard’s film and was con­sciously ref­er­en­cing him, espe­cially since the films share sim­il­ar themes but with the male and female roles more or less reversed.