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Body Heat

film by Kasdan [1981]
Written by
Erik Martiny
Instructor, LycĂ©e International d’Aix-en-Provence. Editor of Lolita: From Nabokov to Kubrick and Lyne and author of IntertextualitĂ© et filiation paternelle dans la poĂ©sie anglophone.
Erik Martiny
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Body Heat, American crime film, released in 1981, that is one of the most significant examples of “neo-noir”—a term often used to describe movies that rework the motifs, themes, or visual effects of the golden age of film noir. Its plot bears a strong resemblance to that of one of the greatest noir films, Double Indemnity (1944). (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) Body Heat, set in Florida, centres on an affair between...

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