Shelley Winters is the madame of a house where customers play out their erotic fantasies, oblivious to a revolution which is sweeping the country. When her old friend, the chief of police (Peter Falk), asks her to impersonate the missing queen in order to reassure the people and halt the revolution, she offers instead three of her customers to play the general, bishop and chief justice, all of whom have died in the revolution.
Reception
Shortly after its release, the film was negatively reviewed by the New York Times critic, Bosley Crowther, and was favorably reviewed in Variety, "With Jean Genet's apparent approval, Joe Strick and Ben Maddow have eliminated the play's obscene language (though it's still plenty rough) and clarified some of its obscurations. The result is a tough, vivid and dispassionate fantasy." Following the release of the DVD in 2000, Karl Wareham also reviewed it favorably. "'The Balcony' is recommended for those who like an enigma of a film, one that tugs at your subconscious long after the titles fade. It’s a film that reaches to the very heart of why our society works in the way it does, and presents unrelenting questions and dilemmas."
So your mouth tastes like sunshine, baby, but your eyes are all cool buried in my arms And the breeze takes us deeper and further into the heart of a moment that is gone And the scent of your heartache, baby, and the taste of your blood, run within me And there're red flowers in your spit when you enter my mouth under the bed, down on the floor So take me under the floorboards I would love to feel like wood Take me back to the retards cause the world just makes me sick There are colors in the air when I fall to the ground How we'd love to fall more often There's a band in our cellar, baby, and they're playing a song of the drunks in the street And I can hear when they're playing their love songs cause the kids in the yard stop playing with their toys So take me under the school yard, there are kids there who got lost Their mouths all shouting asphalt and their bodies torn apart There are colors in the air when I fall to the ground I can sense a world of heartache, but I love the sound of your hair When it falls down from the pillow late at night On the brink of illusion, it's the devil in my eyes Waiting for the moment to kill me inside How we'd love to die more often So take my hands, love, there's a burst inside our minds Feel my hands, love, cause I'm numb from the neck down And there is fire, love, on the balcony right here I can see our bodies burn but sense no fear
Sometimes the security officials would shout angrily up to their balcony, insisting they go back inside and shut their windows to avoid seeing the abuses the Tadmoris knew were taking place next door ... He stood on the balcony and relished the silence.
The girl fell off the balcony of her ... The girl, who was a student of Class 12, was watering plants on the balcony of the high-rise building apartment when the incident happened, said the authorities.
They rushed to the balcony to investigate and saw the two women lying on the ground floor in a pool of blood ... they may have panicked and attempted to flee by jumping off the balcony, police said.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony at ...Smith said the total square footage of the new Starbucks building is 5,894 square feet and features a multi-level space with student collaboration space and a balcony.
Videos showed violent clashes between police and protesters outside the school ... At around 3 a.m., another student in Dang’s dormitory went to the restroom, where he found a wooden stool underneath the balcony window, according to the statement.
Moscow's counterattack has left Ukrainian forces outstretched and demoralized, killing and wounding thousands and retaking more than 40% of the 380 square miles of Kursk that Ukraine had seized ...PresidentJoe Biden after the announcement of a new U.S.
Moscow’s counterattack has left Ukrainian forces outstretched and demoralized, killing and wounding thousands and retaking more than 40% of the 984 square kilometers (380 square miles) of KurskUkraine had seized.
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'One that converted the existing roof to make it a 'useful' spare bedroom completed at £1,080,000; the other, which had a dormer on the back with balcony to provide a 'wow' master bedroom suite, sold over the asking price,' she says.
Brian Eno’s studio in Notting Hill is tucked away at the end of a cobbled mews, its facade a quarter of the normal size ... An airy piano melody wafts over the scene ... that is really the death of a culture ... The result is a kind of joyous manifesto.
— Sam Moore, the surviving half and higher voice of the 1960s duo Sam & Dave that was known for such definitive hits of the era as "Soul Man" and "Hold On, I'm Comin,'" died at age 89 ...Moore lost a lawsuit claiming the resemblance was too close.
Two sisters in their 20s working as domestic helpers died of fatal injuries sustained in a fall from the fourth-floor balcony of the Sector 40 house where they worked on Friday ... from the balcony.
