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"After Dark"
By: Haruki Murakami (2004, translated into English 2007)
This is the first thing I've read by Murakami. The entire book takes place in real time over the course of one night. Eri is beautiful and withdrawn, Mari is her loner sister that we meet in a Denny's at midnight and Takahashi plays blues in a basement when he's not hanging out with the owner of a love hotel. It's got sex, violence, surrealism... it's like reading a Dali painting.
- Grace Duggan
"The Last Mistress"
Dir.: Catherine Breillat
(IFC Films, 104 mins.)
Maybe the Rivkin gender theory is going to my head, but this female-directed, French period piece writhes and bewitches with a winning combination of frankness and emotionality. While occasionally crude, the intellectual friction Breillat crafts in her focus on the power struggle of masculine and feminine sexuality is way above "The Other Boleyn Girl."
- Melissa Marshall
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