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...SERNIN BASILICA, the biggest and most beautiful Romanesque church in southern France; the Musée des Augustins, a 14th century convent and cloister with magnificent Gothic and Romanesque sculpture; the Fondation Bemberg collection, housed in the 16th century Hôtel d'Assézat, has paintings from the Renaissance to the 20th century; the church and cloister of Les Jacobins, founded by St. Dominic in 1340, is famed for its spectacular 28-m "palm tree"; pillar, fanning out into 22 vaulting arches; and the Musée St. Raymond, with its stunning ancient Roman sculpture...
DIED. MARIA LUISA BEMBERG, 73, Latin America's foremost female film director; of stomach cancer; in Buenos Aires. Bemberg came to cinema relatively late in life, directing her first film at the age of 59. Typical of her feminist oeuvre was the Oscar-nominated Camila (1984), a melodrama of an aristocratic young woman who seeks romantic happiness with a Catholic priest...
...first thing to note about I Don't Want to Talk About It, Maria Luisa Bemberg's Argentine film (which she and screenwriter Jorge Goldenberg based on a short story by Julio Llinas) is that this is no freak show. It is a poignant, often funny fable, unfolding like a cautionary bedtime tale. It skips delicately among the ruins of passion, obsession and propriety. As in the novel and movie Like Water for Chocolate, family matters are treated in a mode balanced between magic realism and tragic surrealism...
Christie's fine shoulders can carry every burden but this picture. Even she is crushed by its lumbering platitudes, its obvious ironies, its pacing mired in quicksand. Maria Luisa Bemberg (who directed a fiery Oscar nominee, the 1984 Camila) never secures her characters in the larger landscape. The Peronistas stay offscreen, darn the luck, while the upper-crusters sit idly by, aspiring to Coward's wit and Chekhov's melancholy. Ennui finally devours them all, long after it has consumed the viewer. By Richard Corliss...
...interest. There were strings tied to Beaunit's deal: it may not turn the two companies' rayon yarn into any products made by Beaunit (last year Beaunit made a net profit of 14.4% on $41 million in sales). Also to protect present customers of North American and Bemberg, OAP insisted that the companies continue to supply the customers with yarn for the next five years...