Word: anouk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ready? In the late 1930s, Justine (Anouk Aimée), the sensual wife of an Egyptian banker named Nessim (John Vernon), had been yearning after the aloof British diplomat Pursewarden (Dirk Bogarde), although she had to content herself with the favors of Darley (Michael York), a young writer and lover of a belly dancer named Melissa (Anna Karina). Suddenly Justine and Nessim are revealed as Coptic Christians involved in smuggling guns to Palestine so that the Jews can fight the British. Pursewarden, who knows of their treachery, keeps silent, apparently out of love for Justine. Melissa meanwhile goes...
...knows that he isn't thinking of her. Even George doesn't know exactly whom he is thinking about, so he jumps into his little green sports car and tools around Los Angeles, searching for love and himself. He finds both through an exquisite Frenchwoman named Lola (Anouk Aimee) who earns her living as a "model" for passionate amateur photographers. After a night of love, or what passes for love under Demy's dewy auspices, George selflessly gives Lola the plane fare back to Paris, ditches his chick and prepares to serve his country...
...Service" signs. Although many of the same people recur in each of his films -Lola, for example, was both the subject and the title of his first feature-they have about as much depth as wallpaper. Indeed, Demy uses his characters like wallpaper, merely as human interior decoration. Anouk Aimee is lovely and gracious as Lola, but her seductive simplicity is too hard-edged for Demy's blurry art nouveau. Dressed in clinging blue T shirt and form-fitting jeans, Gary Lockwood makes his way through a thankless role mostly by shifting his feet uncomfortably. Either those jeans...
Wednesday, August 23 WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 8-11 p.m.).* Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli, Anouk Aimee and Stanley Baker in the 1963 Bible thumper, Sodom and Gomorrah. Repeat...
Runaway winner for the Wolf Girl Award was Julie Christie, who also sported the highest-riding miniskirt. Her bangs nearly reached her hem, while her tresses swung in savage disarray around-and over-her face. Ginger Rogers wore superlong locks reminiscent of the '40s. Ann-Margret, Anouk Aimee, Anne Bancroft and Singer Jackie DeShannon wore their hair laissez-faire-uncurled and uncut...