Word: amours
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...number of other individual performances stand out in this overwhelming entourage of fishers, matadors, nobility, courtesans and pixies. Jennifer Gelfand (who, incidentally, plays Kitri in several performances) shines as both Kitri's spirited friend and as the impish twinkling Amour in the dream sequence. Vadim Strukov plays the ridiculous Gamache with just enough clownishness to add some comic relief to the otherwise melodramatic plot. And Adriana Suarez bewitches Barcelona townspeople and audience members alike with her Flamenco elegance as the sultry Street Dancer...
...vamp in The Lover (L'Amant), Jean-Jacques Annaud's adaptation of the Marguerite Duras best seller. With its carnal couplings and a hint of hard core, the film was a Hollywood-size hit in France. Annaud also took some flak: for shooting a very French conte d'amour in English; for choosing pouty English actress Jane March as the girl; and mostly for rejecting Duras's script in favor of one by Gerard Brach. (Duras then wrote a new version of her story, The North China Lover, in the elliptical, present- tense style of a screenplay.) Shorn...
This film, like Duras's script for the 1959 Hiroshima Mon Amour, is a rueful East-West romance dredged from the writer's life. This no-name affair is a last tango in Saigon -- but with the man in thrall, not in control. The girl, who insists she is having sex only because the money her lover gives her helps support her family, knows the stronger partner is always the one who loves less. The man (Tony Leung, a wonderful Hong Kong actor) is singed, happily, by the flame of his ardor. His naked vulnerability is just...
Thomas doesn't have much time anymore for personal pleasures like reading Louis L'Amour novels and tooling around in his jet-black Corvette. His life revolves almost entirely around workdays at the court that can run from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. He is usually in bed by 8. On a court where the Justices communicate largely by memos, he is forging friendships with White and Rehnquist. His most frequent personal contact is with his clerks, reputed to be among the court's most conservative...
...more cultural events I attended, the more I became aware of the disgruntled members, the lack of attendence at these functions and the way people who never even came to a AAA meeting spoke of it with so much skepticism. Words like "clique," "stereotype" and "Oh l'Amour" were the only images people associated with AAA, and I became sick of it. Not of AAA, but of the people who undermined it by criticizing the organization so readily without giving it a chance...