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  • Summary: A fortysomething, recently separated philosophy professor (Berling) encounters the former model of a painter who apparently died while having intercourse with her. The professor begins having sex with the teenage girl on a daily basis and becomes obsessed with her.

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  1. Positive: 8 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    80
    A must-see.
  2. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    75
    There's enough sexual manic depression to justify house calls from Dr. Laura.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    60
    Overly schematic, not always believable in its crude sexual mechanics and ultimately unsensual. But it lays out the laws of erotic attraction with a brutal directness that is downright scary.

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