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copulation succeeds another and the two heroes work their way through an inexhaustible supply of easy lays, it's hard to know who is more dehumanised by the whole procedure: the girls, reduced to grinningly acquiescent playthings; or the men, whom Paul
Valjean (as the balding, bespectacled Miller counterpart) and Wayne John Rodda endow with little life beyond the unquenchable priapic glint in their eyes. The resulting experience, not enhanced by poorly post-synchronised dialogue, is distinctly stultifying."
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of the city in increasing hunger and distress. Returning in despair to the empty apartment, he is reduced to picking stale food out of the bin. Trying vainly to sleep, he is woken by Carl who has brought back
Colette, an underage runaway to whom they give a home. Joey has further dates with Nys, without charge because she enjoys his company. Colette's parents eventually track her down and reclaim her, telling Carl and Joey they will not inform the police so long as the two never see the girl again.
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artist comes to their apartment, offers her services and paints slogans over the walls of the bathroom. In a café, Joey meets the amiable Nys and they go to a hotel. In the street afterwards, when she asks for money he gives her all he has got. Left with nothing for his dinner, he roams the streets
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wrote: "Though visually fluid and inventive, and capitalising on some attractive music from
Country Joe Macdonald, Jens Jorgen Thorsen's version of Henry Miller's Paris-set autobiographical novel never does enough to alleviate the sheer repetitiveness of its source material. As one scene of
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