Word: ardant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mommy, played by Fanny Ardant, is not particularly upset with her husband. In fact, she says, Daddy is an artist of burglary. Getting caught is just an occupational hazard...
...actors do the best they can. Ardant, who resembles Meryl Streep and has the wannest face ever filmed, plays her role with the severity and distance it requires, even if the direction does require her to cuddle her children in an overly Freudian way. Halladay, the popular French music star, is a man who has aged well. He is at his best when he is angry, which is most of the time...
...Cardinale) is giving birth to their sixth child, he luxuriates in the ardor of his latest bimbette. What his wife sees as playing around, he sees as just playing -- and how natural for this overgrown bear of a little boy, this Ewok of genial lust. His eldest daughter (Fanny Ardant) is sympathetic but admonitory: "No man, especially a good man, can keep two women happy." He does, though. He keeps his daughters happy and his wife almost forgiving. In embracing these Gallic cliches, Next Summer creates an imaginary ideal family, one with adulteries, frustrations and near fatal diseases, but also...
...moving -- tributes were offered to two absent friends. One afternoon a single spotlight illuminated the Palais stage -- the aura left vacant by Francois Truffaut, who died at 52 last October -- and slowly two dozen figures gathered in the shadows. Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant and a host of old colleagues were there to wreathe the great director's memory in their affection and gratitude...
...contrast, Odette de Crecy (Ornella Mutti), has what might tactfully be called 'tacky taste'. She is, moreover, a demimondaine-little more than a prostitute on the social scale--to her snobbish patroness, the Duchess de Guermantes (Fanny Ardant...