L'Ennui
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- | Martin, professor of philosophy and tired of life, is possessed by a physical passion for a "[[femme-enfant]]" who is beautiful, naive, sexually voracious, and utterly pliant. She is opaque, and because he cannot inhabit her mind, cannot make her feel intensely for him, he becomes neurotically obsessed by her, which, of course, leads to all kinds of abjection and abasement for him. In this, the film explores the tension between the male dream of feminine passivity, and the male nightmare of feminine impassivity. | + | Martin, professor of philosophy and tired of life, is possessed by a physical passion for a "[[femme-enfant]]" who is beautiful, naive, sexually voracious, and utterly pliant (see ''[[La Femme Objet]]''). She is opaque, and because he cannot inhabit her mind, cannot make her feel intensely for him, he becomes neurotically obsessed by her, which, of course, leads to all kinds of abjection and abasement for him. In this, the film explores the tension between the male dream of feminine passivity, and the male nightmare of feminine impassivity. |
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Martin, professor of philosophy and tired of life, is possessed by a physical passion for a "femme-enfant" who is beautiful, naive, sexually voracious, and utterly pliant (see La Femme Objet). She is opaque, and because he cannot inhabit her mind, cannot make her feel intensely for him, he becomes neurotically obsessed by her, which, of course, leads to all kinds of abjection and abasement for him. In this, the film explores the tension between the male dream of feminine passivity, and the male nightmare of feminine impassivity.
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