Cinema: Pipsqueak Plautus

To Love. They meet at her husband's funeral, and it's lust at first sight. She (Harriet Andersson) is a young Swedish widow whose husband left much to be desired. He (Zbigniew Cybulski) is a young Stockholm travel agent who looks like what she needs. "I might want to go south," she sighs receptively. "I might give you a ring," he mutters as he looks her over. When the mourners go home, she skips off to her bedroom, rips off her clothes, flips on a station that plays jazz jazz jazz. Her mother protests: "Hardly decent, is it?" Hardly. Many moviegoers, in...

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