Director Breillat, screenwriter for Maurice Pialat's estimably gritty Police (1985), thoroughly demolishes every trace of prurience, instead focusing on the almost dizzying conflict within Lili--her confusion over her hunger for life and her anger at it.

Feminist analyses, critical in thinking through these myths of identity, have emphasized the methodological complications in being “skinfolk” but not necessarily “kinfolk,” to use Brackette Williams's trenchant distinction (1996), while reminding us also of the value of researchers who may be kinfolk in their depth of connection and commitment even if they are not skinfolk (Narayan 1993).

The ake of months of a growing firenlust became a rising queem til at last there was the burst of loosing that almost made his knees buckle.

Buddha said it, Lao-Tsze and Confucius said it, but in this twentieth century, “ethical rules of conduct” have taken a back seat to the pleasure of gossiping about our neighbors, scandalism, sensationalism, sharp business dealings, and many of the other evils of our day.