Word: aumont
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nothing much happens in this gentle, acute, hugely affecting film from French Director Bertrand Tavernier (The Clockmaker, Coup de Torchon). Monsieur wakes, engages in a mild battle of wills with his sere housekeeper, dresses for the arrival of his son Gonzague (Michel Aumont). Gonzague's stern wife (Genevieve Mnich) lectures Monsieur fondly on his latest painting-"Put a cat on the divan; a cat is always nice"-and Monsieur replies with a smile that might be a wince. His two grandsons make an ordinary nuisance of themselves. His granddaughter, the lovely Mireille (Katia Wostrikoff), watches today's dinner...
...entourage consists of human termites, mostly relatives, some of whom would like to strip the old lady of her fortune or her life. The most personable among them is that aging Continental charmer Jean-Pierre Aumont as a live-in physician and former lover...
...lives half the year in Barbados, where she owns a house, and there she is almost as famous a hostess as she is an actress. "Her house is exquisitely decorated," says Jean-Pierre Aumont, her co-star in A Talent for Murder. "She has fantastic taste. Her table is set as if it's at the White House -which is funny because you eat wearing bathing suits." She has an apartment on Fifth Avenue as well and, now that she is by herself, also indulges one of her passions: travel. Hollywood? "The whole thing is over for me there...