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You can almost smell the arousal wafting from the screen as “Miller’s Girl” wends its overheated way through lubricious conversations and a comically on-the-mark soundtrack.

Mashing pentagrams, Prince Andrew and autoerotic asphyxiation into a lubricious slop, “The Scary of Sixty-First” feels suffocating and flat.

In 1993 the New York Times noted how “lady luck” was resistant to his “lubricious charm”.

Notorious turns full-circle on its initially lubricious premise, and offers us both a sexpionage thriller and a sensual romance – and something much more ethically murky and fascinating than both.

One of the oddest things about this film is how many of the oddities, especially the more lubricious ones, are true.