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...Accompanist directed by Claude Miller starring Elena Safonova, Richard Bohringer and Romane Bohringer...
From France, love and jealousy pianissimo in The Accompanist...
...concert singer in occupied Paris during World War II. Talented and high-spirited, apparently gliding through life, Irene can juggle the affections of a businessman husband (Richard Bohringer) and a lover (Samuel Labarthe) who is in the Resistance. Sophie, a promising pianist, is pleased to be Irene's accompanist and maid; she serves tea, irons, watches, tries to keep secrets. Servant and mistress, darkness and light -- why, the two women might be in different movies...
...love -- especially a first love like Sophie's. She could be a sister to Willa Cather's Lucy Gayheart or a daughter to Stevens the butler in The Remains of the Day. This implosive sort of devotion is found often enough in life but rarely in films. That The Accompanist exists at all is the first reason to cherish...
...along, fiction lovers, James Wilcox writes your kind of book. GUEST OF , A SINNER (HarperCollins; $20), his sixth novel, is a funny, rambling chronicle of half a dozen people in New York City whom any sociologist would label misfits. Eric Thorsen gets by as a piano teacher and accompanist. His sister sells espresso machines at Macy's. Their father brews trouble. So do the people drawn to the Thorsens, mostly by Eric's good looks -- to which he is indifferent. Wilcox's skill is in taking the reader by the hand into his shaggy narrative and filling it with unexpected...