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Shunned French Crime Film ‘A Woman Kills’ Slips Out of the Shadowy Margins
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Shunned French Crime Film ‘A Woman Kills’ Slips Out of the Shadowy Margins

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 / 28 February 2023

French New Wave director Jean-Denis Bonan is among the cursed and damned filmmakers – revered by a few, reviled by most. His formerly shunned A Woman Kills (1968) slips out of the shadowy margins and appears for modern viewers.

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s ‘Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom’ Makes a Mockery of Things
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Pier Paolo Pasolini’s ‘Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom’ Makes a Mockery of Things

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 / 23 October 2008

Viewers are acutely aware that Pasolini makes a mockery of things and went too far with Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom. But too far, morally? Personally and psychologically? Politically? Somehow metaphysically?