Self-Portrait of an Angel and Monster

Monday, Jan. 22, 1973

The tango is a pantomime coitus for the camera.—Filippo Tomaso Marinetti, 1914

THE man is middleaged, leonine, ravaged. The girl is young, foxlike, insouciant. Total strangers to each other, they are inspecting an unfurnished Paris apartment that is for rent. Suddenly, the man scoops the girl up in his arms, carries her to the side of the room, then embraces and kisses her hungrily. He tears off her panties and has sex with her while still dressed and standing. The camera rests steadily on them as he thrusts her against the wall and...

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