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...AIMEZ-MOI By Caron; recalls Lolita Lempicka Key notes: Anise, clove, violet leaf, tonka bean, heliotrope, musk, amber Dubin: "I imagine myself in Venice, dancing at a masked ball with a handsome stranger...
Meanwhile, Sagan has remained imperturbably on course, charting the manners of France's Beautiful People who inhabit the milieu of high fashion, advertising and show business. Those of her novels that appeared in the U.S., such as A Certain Smile, Aimez-Vous Brahms? and The Unmade Bed, came across as high-class pop fiction à la française with predictable complements of cuckolds, betrayed mistresses and golden-eyed lovers...
...became a 19-year-old member of le tout Paris and an instant international celebrity. The world soon learned that she drank a lot of Scotch, loved to play chemin defer and drive Jaguars in her bare feet. The characters in her subsequent books, among them such bestsellers as Aimez-Vous Brahms? and A Certain Smile, tended to be beautiful, languid, bent on self-destruction. They were often driven by pangs of ennui, whose meaning in French implies more cosmic pain than its English translation ("boredom") can possibly convey...
...Three Musketeers, a romp-and-stomp spectacle in which the Danish swashbucklers made Douglas Fairbanks look like a party poop. Later, he enlivened and internationalized his programs with Afternoon of a Faun by America's Jerome Robbins, Card Game by South Africa's John Cranko, Aimez-vous Bach by Canada's Brian MacDonald, and Agon by Denmark's First Eske Holm, a Flindt protege. Brash, bristling with energy, Flindt has reorganized the training methods of the company and its dance school, initiated open auditions and, for the first time, hired non-Danish dancers. ("Five million Danes...
...wasn't worth marrying") and Actor Guy Bedos. A onetime toe dancer, she made ten films before last year's Dragées au Poivre (Sweet and Sour) established Sophie as "the most exuberant comic of the Nouvelle Vague." The latest Bedos-Daumier hit, Aimez-Vous les Femmes?, is a comedy about cannibalism; the piece de resistance is Sophie au naturel...