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...film industry like France's, actors just act. Reigning beauties like Catherine Deneuve and Emmanuelle Beart take a wide variety of parts, and nobody gets upset if they switch genres. Hollywood is, of course, different. There are stars, and then there are all those other people--actors. But occasionally stars want to prove their seriousness. Art stirs in their breast like an edifying influenza, and they take on roles outside their expected range. Falling prey to the lure of sackcloth and Oscars, normally glammed-up female stars don drab frocks, sport the no-makeup makeup look, play a character...
...industry and its actresses occupy a middle-class middle ground where emotions are rarely italicized. If moviegoers are to be touched, they must do half the work, trolling for subtext, reading a heartbreak into a pensive glance. That ability to conspire with the filmmakers is especially important when viewing Beart in Claude Sautet's Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud, winner of the Cesar for the year's best French film...
...fascinating demons that might lurk within his own self. But these demons are never really unleashed; instead, the two friends are shown working and playing together as squash partners and stylistic opposites. When we are introduced through Stephane's eyes to Maxim's new lover and client Camille (Emanuelle Beart), a young violinist, we are meant, perhaps, to be scathed by her beauty. After all, she automatically enchants every- one (male and female) in the film before shehas even picked up her instrument. Of course, onceshe does that, she has them all doubly transfixedand smoking with renewed aesthetic ferocity...
Stephane (Daniel Auteuil) and Maxime (Andre Dussollier) are partners in a violin repair business. Maxime, a man of affairs, is now involved with the accomplished young violinist Camille (Emmanuelle Beart). "It's a new experience," he notes, "admiring someone I love." Stephane is Maxime's opposite: he has a stillness that consoles men and attracts women. "You're very reticient," Camille says, and he replies, "A bit"; Stephane is too reticent even to admit he's reticent. He may be a little in love with Camille -- "I like watching you talk," is all he says...
Auteuil's performance is heroically blank. He doesn't explain Stephane's emotional numbness, nor does he editorialize against it. He allows his lure for dear Camille to remain a mystery, like so many romantic attractions. But then Beart (Manon in Manon of the Spring, the painter's model in La Belle Noiseuse) is an actress of such extraordinary beauty that any time she falls in movie love she seems like a goddess slumming. Her radiant face is , therapeutic. A glance from her should thaw the frostiest heart...