Two Socialites Have Sex, Make War in All the Wrong Places
Ed Park
Tuesday, September 7th 2004
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photo: Pierre Dury/Sony Pictures Classics
Tub-humping: Townsend and Theron
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Written and directed by John Duigan
Sony Pictures Classics, opens September 17
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Gilda moved to Paris while I agitated against fascism. The Spanish Civil War raged. I plunged into Gilda's milieu—she was a photographer now. We took a bath wearing nothing but neckties and hats. We desired each other intensely, though she had no interest in politics, unlike her limping Spanish friend Mia (Penélope Cruz). It turns out they had been lesbian lovers! No threesome manifested, though we all tumbled about under the sheets. After Mia got socked by her depraved boyfriend, Gilda lured him to a hotel room and reprised her Oscar-winning role from Monster. Later I went to fight in Spain where Mia was a nurse and we nuzzled obscurely. Then I worked for the Resistance in France. Gilda took a Nazi lover—how could she? I remember best her mutable hair, which went from a bob to a wave to a longish Angelina Jolie coif.
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