By Thierry Jonquet
This identify introduces a movie by means of Almodovar, in accordance with Jonquet's novel, due on 18th November 2011, starring Antonio Banderas. Richard Lafargue is an eminent plastic health practitioner haunted by means of soiled secrets and techniques. He has an working theatre within the basement of his chateau and retains his associate Eve imprisoned in her bed room, a room he has built with an intercom and 300-watt audio system during which he bellows orders. Eve is simply allowed out to be paraded at cocktail events and at the final Sunday of every month, while the couple stopover at a tender lady in a psychological asylum. Following those outings, Lafargue humiliates Eve by means of forcing her to accomplish lewd sexual acts with strangers whereas he watches via a one-way reflect. In alternating chapters, Jonquet introduces possible unrelated characters - a felony at the run after murdering a policeman, and an kidnapped younger guy who reveals himself chained bare in a dismal chamber, pressured to undergo all demeanour of actual torture by the hands of a mysterious stranger, whom he calls Mygale, after a kind of tropical spider. All of those characters are stuck in a deceitful net, ready to satisfy their destiny.
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Once back at Le Vésinet, he knocked on Eve’s door and slid back the bolts. She was seated at the piano naked, playing a sonata, and she seemed not to register Richard’s presence. At the piano stool, she kept her back to him. Locks of her curly black hair bounced on her shoulders, her head bobbing as her fingers struck the keyboard. He admired the flesh and the muscles of her back, the dimples at its base, her buttocks…Without warning, she abandoned the light, fluid sonata and launched into the tune Richard so hated.
She made herself up, then took the easel from its case and spread out the paints and brushes and resumed work on a canvas that she had in hand. It was a portrait of Richard, vulgar and crudely executed. She showed him seated on a bar stool with legs apart, cross-dressed as a woman, a cigarette-holder in his mouth, wearing a pink dress and black stockings held up by a garter-belt; his feet were crammed into high-heeled shoes. He was smiling beatifically, even idiotically. Grotesque falsies made of old rags hung pathetically over his flaccid belly.
He pointed to the telephone. ” Eve shuddered, gagging with disgust, but Richard’s expression was terrible, almost demonic. She was obliged to pick up the receiver and dial the number. After a moment, Varneroy came on the line.