Word: barrault
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...length pictures that got little notice. My Night at Maud's changed that. The soufflé-light, dialogue-heavy film - the first to be shown with subtitles in the Cannes festival competition - enchanted audiences with its tale of a man (Jean-Louis Trintignant) committed to one woman (Marie-Christine Barrault) but willing to stay the night with the divorced Maud (Françoise Fabian) just ... talking. After the pyrotechnics of Godard and Truffaut, some wondered if Rohmer had made a film or a radio play. But, as critic Andrew Sarris wisely observed, there's nothing more cinematic than the sight...
...Born in Lyon in 1924, Jarre was no child prodigy; he was in his late teens before he decided to study music. In Paris after the war he hooked up with two exceptional impresarios of French theater: Jean-Louis Barrault and Jean Vilar. For Vilar he wrote incidental music for modern readings of classical plays. In 1951, Georges Franju, a director of spare, uncompromising documentaries, hired Jarre to score his film essay on wounded veterans, the 1951 Hôtel des Invalides. In the next dozen years they would collaborate on two more shorts and five sepulchral features, including Head...
...peak in the early 1960s, Ionesco attracted such collaborators as Jean-Louis Barrault, who magically staged A Stroll in the Air; Laurence Olivier and Zero Mostel, who both played the lead in Rhinoceros (with Mostel winning a Tony Award on Broadway); and Alec Guinness, who starred in Exit the King, a Lear-like portrait of the inevitability of death. Ionesco was hailed as someone who might bridge the gap between literature and entertainment. Instead, his work grew more remote and austere, and his audiences dwindled. His last play, Journeys Among the Dead, was withdrawn before opening in New York City...
...They neck furiously as a young customer enters the store. Stani squats behind the counter and strokes Paulina's thigh while foraging for another customer's potatoes. Everybody in town knows about them: Paulina's neurotic bookkeeper (Elisabeth Trissenaar), the snoop-exhibitionist next door (Marie-Christine Barrault), even Paulina's seven-year-old son. He discovers them flagrante delicto in the storeroom; Mama eyes him solemnly, closes the door and returns to her pleasure. "Me, beautiful?" Paulina remarks to Stani. "But I could be your mother." And Stani replies: "My mother is beautiful too." This...
...within what seems a short span of time, Swann must plead for Odette's affections. He pursues her as the rejects him in favor of the wealthy bourgeoise, Madame Verdurin (Marie-Christine Barrault). In desperation, Swann searches Odette's room for elusive voices. He torments himself with details of her lesbian attachments. Foreboding music adds to the tension. Swann's frustrations build to such a pitch that a crash seems inevitable...