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Kopkind, Andrew | January 11, 1986 issue

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The article presents information on the film "Fool for Love," directed by Robert Altman. In this film, the horrible secrets of characters Eddie and May's past are explicated in a series of monologues and depicted in flashbacks which grow more frequent as the film progresses. The flashbacks are partisan renderings of reality, filled with the lies, half-truths and subjective judgments. Their obsessive relationship is too hot to handle, but as much as they cannot live together, they cannot stay apart. What binds them is also what repels them, that is, the memory of innocence and the experience of sin. So they slap and scream, bite and kiss, stalk and pout and try to explain themselves to each other and the world.

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MOTION pictures; FOOL for Love (Film); ALTMAN, Robert, 1925-2006; FLASHBACKS; MEMORY; STALKING
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