Word: billet-doux
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...Brazilian director Hector Babenco ended his Carandiru with the slaughter of innocents in a São Paulo jail. Austrian Michael Haneke depicted the moral chaos attending an unspecified disaster in his testy The Time of the Wolf. Even Denys Arcand's genial The Barbarian Invasions, a French-Canadian billet-doux to a dear, dying scoundrel, featured a jarring clip of a hijacked plane crashing into the World Trade Center. And the two main Palme d'Or contenders showed how the world could end in America: with a bang. Dogville - like Von Trier's best-known films, Breaking the Waves...
Every so often each year there occurs a self-bestowed Christmas in the American home. A package arrives. The eager family gathers round to rip it open. Instead of "Blessings from Gran," the enclosed billet-doux reads...
...NIGHT. A sly, shrewd billet-doux to the giddy excesses of film making and film makers from François Truffaut...
...sort of an aerial billet-doux. "HI JOHN!" it read. "THINGS ARE EVEN BETTER AT SUFFOLK DOWNS." The offer offered free admission to any fan who admitted he had seen Harvard play Northeastern, and had a ticket stub to prove...
When a torrid billet-doux she once wrote to Dr. Christiaan Barnard hit the Italian papers, Gina Lollobrigida filed a loud complaint. La Lollo explained that she had written the scorcher in English, hardly her best language; it had then been translated into German by Quick magazine and finally put back into her native tongue by the Italian press. The result, she said, was something less than accurate. Whatever the message, Gina is suing both Barnard and his exwife, who published the letter in her memoirs. She loved the surgeon once, Gina confesses, but left him because...