Cinema: One Man's Meat

Sundays and Cybèle. People turn and stare at them. No wonder. Pierre (Hardy Kruger) is 30, Cybèle (Patricia Gozzi) is twelve. Yet there they go through a pretty little park near Paris, holding hands and mooning. "You'll be 36," she murmurs dreamily, "when I'm 18. He bends and kisses her hair. Tenderly as a mother she holds his head and tells him that he looks like "un enfant perdu. Seductively as a mistress she lies on the soft sward, tells him that something touched her shoulders in a dream—"and I thought it was your...

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