Word: amours
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Noted animal lover and even more noted man lover BRIGITTE BARDOT, 62, has written a breathless memoir. It might almost be a best seller if one copy were bought by each ex-amour named in it. Many of them, however, won't much like what they read. It's not just her dissatisfaction with men. Initiales B.B. has plenty of Bardot's far-right, anti-immigration politics too. But as she is being sued by a leading French antiracism organization for "provoking racial hatred" in recent interviews, maybe she should take the advice of one newspaper headline: B.B., SHUT...
...redemptive and destructive power of love. Her most popular was 1984's L'Amant (The Lover), an autobiographical novel that depicts the social and sexual tensions between a poor French 15-year-old and her wealthy Asian lover. In film her biggest success was the screenplay for Hiroshima, Mon Amour...
...Even the neon glitz of his milieu, visual catnip to most directors, is muted. His Las Vegas is mostly low-wattage motel rooms and morning-after grayness. Cage, that most daring of actors, practically cha-chas through the gloom, high on the freedom that the loss of all amour propre bestows. Shue's character hasn't yet reached that heady state. She's engaged in a complex struggle between self-awareness and self-destruction. One has only the smallest hope for her. And none at all for the commercial fate of a movie that may be just...
AFTER L'ACQUITTAL, L'AMOUR...
...matter how long, must be filmed in one shot with a very fidgety camera--pays off in the first meeting of Lenny and Linda; the comic tension is deliciously built and sustained. And when the chorus breaks into some dreamy Cole Porter harmonies as background to an unlikely amour, the goofiness is almost magical...