Word: bonheur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BONHEUR. Young love and marriage prove to be mixed blessings in French Director Agnes Varda's cynical fable of infidelity, superficially as pastel and pretty as a Renoir painting...
...BONHEUR. A happy French philanderer tacks blissfully between his wife and mistress in Director Agnès Varda's exquisite essay on young love, spelled out with considerable cynicism...
...BONHEUR. A fascinating Gallic fable of infidelity, drenched with springtime color and quite dispassionate in its point of view toward a handsome young carpenter who rather casually betrays his beloved first wife but finds equal happiness with her successor...
...Bonheur translates the French word for happiness into an exquisite fable of infidelity, set to music by Mozart, delicately filmed in the impressionist manner of Renoir, and committed to an utterly cynical contemporary view of the gap between male and female sensibility. Writer-Director Agnès Varda (Cleo From 5 to 7) suffuses the screen with a rueful, youthful, radiant mood, creates a world of innocence and beauty that looks like an invitation for romping barefoot through fields of wildflowers newly abloom. Only later does she reveal that every blossom holds a thorn...
...skeleton. Though his sculptures are on a tabletop scale, they make picturesque heroes out of wild animals, emphasizing their surging power and proud cruelty in a way that artists have never truly bothered to portray since. Other notable animaliers included Christophe Fratin, son of a taxidermist, and Rosa Bonheur, who later mistakenly gave up sculpture for painting...