Word: astruc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Astruc should have been concentrating on the road as he drove along the icy edge of the Lot River in southwestern France. But Astruc is a spelunker, always on the lookout for potholes to pop into. To him, the little frost-free spot he saw in a limestone cliff suggested a cave entrance that had become plugged up. He stopped to probe the spot with a crowbar. Stones and dirt caved in; warm air whooshed out. Suddenly Astruc was staring into a narrow tunnel. "I was alone," he says, "afraid to go in very far, or stay very long...
Stomach Crawlers. Astruc came back with fellow members of the Quercy Speleological Club of Cahors. They all crawled headfirst into the hole, soon found themselves in a passageway no more than 20 in. high. Exhaling to squeeze between rocks, rubbing their noses in the wet clay, they inched along. Then one of them saw carvings on the ceiling...
Director Alexander Astruc and screenplay writer Roland Laudenbach take great care to preserve in End of Desire the mood of Guy de Maupassant's Une Vie. They translate novel into movie with a confident, graceful fluency. The picture does not show the strain to telescoping and rearranging that often ruins adaptations; End of Desire seems like a filmed transliteration of the original story. In Maria Schell's dolorous eyes, Maupassant's anguish over undeserved suffering arrives on the screen intact...
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