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melee
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Nous pouvons observer dans cette pièce que l'image de l'abat-jour lilas apparaît mêlée aux rencontres érotiques, dans un rapport intertextuel subtil avec la chanson composée en 1950 par Marino Pinto et Mário Rossi.
Still, as the dueling goes on—slash, clang, stab—from one overlong mêlée to another, and the three harlots rush downstage shaking their booties for the umpteenth time, you can sit back and drown in the music.
But the funniest image in the film is that of a scattering of recently discharged executives, armed with their briefcases, all showing up for an advertised employment opportunity and “competing,” as always, to be first up the stairway in a mêlée involving briefcases, water-coolers and sheer manual force—only to find, at the end of their struggles, a long line of job applicants without briefcases.
 
 
 
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