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And Julien? He kept the same careful watchfulness, but his gestures were now stitched into the town’s daily work: fixing a broken fence, delivering bread, arriving with a borrowed book and staying long enough to read two chapters aloud. The mating season had been, for him, an education. It had taught him to turn toward what required tending and to leave behind the easy thrill of being desired. In its wake Bellmont was not smaller; it had simply learned to make room.

In practice, a “Mating Season” scene or series typically features: bel ami mating season

Joey Amis is featured in what was marketed as one of the studio's most significant solo/sequence performances at the time. And Julien