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Columbia University professor Suzanne Blier has accepted a tenure offer to become the Fine Arts Department's first-ever full-time African art specialist, officials said this week...
...Blier said yesterday that the courses she will teach when she arrives at Harvard next fall are not yet decided, but that she will work with professors in a number of other departments and faculties who study issues related to Africa, including Afro-American Studies chair Henry Louis Gates...
...heir of Jean Gabin -- the soul of France," says Bertrand Blier, writer-director of six Depardieu films, including the Oscar-winning Get Out Your Handkerchiefs and the new Merci la Vie. "Like all the great talents, Gerard is a raw talent -- art brut. They learn a little technique doing theater, but the rest is inside them. Brando, Dustin Hoffman, Mastroianni: he's in that great class." Like those actors, Depardieu is capable of melodramatic excess; to give all is sometimes to give too much. But also like them, he has set an indelible stamp on his country's films, defining...
...BEAUTIFUL FOR YOU. A French businessman (Gerard Depardieu) has a gorgeous, loving wife (Carole Bouquet). So how come he loves frowsy Josiane Balasko? Because in a Bertrand Blier movie, fate always drives men into the brick wall of their improbable lust. This bracing, supersonic comedy plays mid-life crisis for all it's worth: as high farce, with a body count...
...Bertrand Blier (Going Places, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, Beau Pere) revels in treating romantic obsession as a frolic to the death. Recklessly assured, Blier keeps escalating the stakes here until comedy becomes love story becomes tragedy becomes megafarce. After an hour or so, Menage explodes from the exhaustion of possibilities, and the cast is left to pick up the pieces. They do so, handsomely, while the sardonic writer-director surveys the carnage with what he calls "my big shotgun smile." You can see bits of flesh in his teeth...