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...sort of comment on the monarchy, or if the excerpts of serious analysis are intended to be heeded, then Scola has produced a muddled failure. The film's frivolity, if intended as a counterbalance--a light-hearted portrayal of chaos--proves nothing of the kind, with the La-Cage-aux-Folles-type fairy-coachmen who are tedious rather than funny. The fresh moments are all to far in between in this frankly boring and undistinguished film; only ardent Mastroianni enthusiasts or connoisseurs of 1790s French fashion will come away from La Nuit de Varennes satisfied...
...lifted. The notion of Jewish leaders plotting secretly came from a novel called Biarritz (1868) by Hermann Goedsche, a German who used the pen name Sir John Retcliffe. Most of the language and ideas in the Protocols, however, were taken directly from a French satire published in 1864, Dialogue aux enfers entre Montesquieu et Machiavel (Dialogue in Hell Between Montesquieu and Machiavelli). The conversation reveals Machiavelli (a thinly disguised stand-in for Napoleon III) as a cynical mastermind of corrupt power and how to attain it. The Russian forgers simply adapted his sentiments to fit the imaginary elders...
...home, starring actors they can identify with. "You simply can't have a strong filmgoing climate unless you have a healthy domestic film product," says Silvera. "Britain and Italy have learned that to their distress." Though Americans are familiar with titles like The Last Metro and La Cage aux Folles, most French movies, which lean toward police thrillers, comedies and love stories, never cross the Atlantic, since distributors are convinced that they would not find an audience...
...Cage aux Folles, an expensive French restaurant on La Cienega Boulevard, where transvestites impersonate famous female singers. Tipped by radio that Arrington and the coke had been seized, the agents waited until Hetrick finished his late-night meal, then arrested him outside the restaurant...
Today Franey arrived with bonito, a fine, 8-lb. or 9-lb. fish filleted to about 2½ lbs. Breasts of chicken for supremes de volatile aux poivrons are at hand on the big, 6-ft. by 12-ft. marble worktable, along with peppers, tomatoes, fresh corn. Franey, who is wearing a tennis shirt and khakis, puts on a blue denim apron that matches Claiborne's. His dogs, a Labrador and a spaniel, array themselves on the red tile floor. He banishes to outer darkness a bottle of strong, dark Italian olive oil, with which Claiborne has been whisking...