Word: alaine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by ALAIN TANNER...
Screenplay by ALAIN TANNER and JOHN BERGER...
Aloof and Sexy. Alain Tanner, a Swiss film maker (La Salamandre), is especially smart in his portrait of the affair between Adriana and Paul, a romance that teaches truths only the woman is prepared to accept. Tanner seduces his audience, just as Paul is seduced, with the heat and affection of the affair. The Middle of the World is both aloof and sexy, qualities Tanner employs to characterize the romance and, finally, to limit...
...Cornfield ten years ago asked the question, "Do you sincerely want to be rich?" he was playing the game according to these rules; William Make peace Thackeray knew that "the facade is everything" when he told Victorian England "How to live well on nothing a year" in Vanity Fair. Alain Resnais's Stavisky, based on a real swindler who flourished in mid-30's Paris, is a man who understands this first principle of high class fraud, but the film derives most of its interest not from the ethics or mechanics of chicanery but from its recreation of the rogue...
Free Choice. When this type of plan has been tried elsewhere, it has usually failed. Transit facilities simply cannot compete with the freedom and privacy of the auto. So Grenoble is promoting a humble alternative. "The bicycle offers door-to-door convenience," says Traffic Engineer Alain Leclerc, head of what he calls "the Two Wheels in Grenoble" program. "It also offers free choice of departure time and destination, plus the possibility of moving about without taking a hard-to-park ton of steel along with you." In case of inclement weather or too many parcels or small children, mass transit...