Word: barrault
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...murderer) who love the same woman, and must cope with their passion and jealousy in startlingly different ways. Carne's characters revel in theatrics; illusion and reality smash into each other, driving each man to the very brink of his art, to the terrifying edge of truth. Jean-louis Barrault's famous, pantomimed re-enactment of an attempted pocket-pick, his face frozen in existential melancholy, is one of the most gaspingly, startlingly, fascinatingly magnificent scenes in world cinema. Beautiful, hilarious, tragic, one of the greatest movies ever made...
...flashing a moon at dinner" and "Aunt Jeanne throwing up in the garden") and when the small children are given riot squad outfits for Christmas and run amok clubbing the celebrants a la May '68. Even the love scenes are not too sappy, particularly since the heroine, Jean-Louis Barrault's daughter, is extraordinarily beautiful...
...COUPLE meets at a wedding reception, abandoned by their respective spouses, Marie-France Pisier and Guy Marchand, who are off making love. This latest infidelity is only one more in a long line of similar abuses both Barrault and Lanoux have suffered over the course of their decade-long marriages. Pisier is an impulsive and flirtatious gamine and Marchand a priapic cad who insists on relieving his guilt by telling his wife all the lurid details. If that isn't enough to stack the deck in favor of Barrault and Lanoux, we also find out that they, unlike their incorrigibly...
...until the point where even Cotton Mather would be urging them on that Barrault and Lanoux bed down. We are then treated to the much touted "healthy sensuality." I confess to being moved by much of this. There is a child-like and playful tenor to the sexuality here that is refreshing and just as real as the pathologies so often paraded before us. Rarely has lovemaking on the screen been so suffused with intimacy. Yet there wasn't one moment anyone could really call erotic. Lanoux and Barrault seemed at times almost de sexed, one with his roly-poly...
...safe and cozy personae he has provided keep us from finding them really intriguing--the lewd, dangerous or unpredictable traits all belong to Pisier and Marchand. If Tacchella really wanted to present complicated and poignant personalities he wouldn't have polarized emotions as he has. We do root for Barrault and Lanoux as their affair escalates, as they begin to take a mischievous delight in flaunting their romance in front of a chagrined Pisier and Marchand, and as they perform their final act of liberation--shattering one of the family functions by announcing their departure and running away on Lanoux...