女神殿

ecdysiast

Y
[ek-diz-ee-ast, -ist] 

D

–noun 
stripper (def. 3).  

3. Also called ecdysiast, exotic dancer, stripteaser. a person who performs a striptease. 


Already the subject of considerable [ink], Swedish master Ingmar Bergman's posthumous reputation—or "overrated career," as Jonathan Rosenbaum put it in a New York Times op-ed obit—should get a boost from a two-week run of his 1953 Monika. 

obit
–noun 
1. Informal. an obituary. 
2. the date 
of 
a person's death. 

3. Obsolete. a Requiem Mass. 

Uneven and sometimes clumsy, Monika doesn't nearly justify Godard's claims, but it's easy to see what impressed him. Bergman's tale of heedless teenage love is a sort of neorealist Rebel Without a Cause—except that sex is acknowledged and the outlaw is a girl. In her rejection of all domestic responsibility, motherhood included, Monika's uninhibited, impulsive, working-class protagonist is a natural [foe] of bourgeois morality. 

Andersson, who'd been a teenage ecdysiast before Bergman "discovered" her, would subsequently act in eight of his films, most notably as the God-haunted schizophrenic in Through a Glass Darkly. She was more recently a resident of Dogville. It's her Monika, however, who haunts Breathless—[evoked] in the famous close-up where Jean Seberg looks deep into the camera and coolly stares us down. 

November 14 through 27, IFC Center. 


leer
a lascivious or sly look.
I can't [con]centrate with you leering [at] me.
ogle 
Uncle George got a black eye for [ogling] a lady in the pub.
Henrik, Egerman's son by a previous marriage, is studying theology, but he is constantly being [ogled] by Petra, the maid. 
squint
to look with the eyes partly closed.
to look or glance obliquely or sidewise; look askance.
He squinted through the [tele]scope.
The baby squinted its eyes at the bright [lights]. 

voluptuous 
luscious
carnal
nymphomania sultry gamine tart coquetry slattern

termagant virago 
Nubile
Debauchery