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Newcomer Gregori Derangere is the perpetually bemused Frederic, an impoverished writer still in love with his childhood crush. She’s now the popular actress Viviane Denvers (Isabelle Adjani, who looks like she’s been given a severe dose of Botox). So intoxicating is Viviane’s hold on Frederic that he doesn’t mind being imprisoned for a crime she committed, later following her across France to Bordeaux’s Hotel Splendide. A crop of rabid aristocrats have also gathered at the Splendide to escape the madhouse of Paris and badger...
...happy early life, through his sojurn as a downtrodden beast of burden to his happy end-of-life working for a miller who thinks he is a reincarnated Saint. His journey parallels that of the lovely young girl who originally named Balthazar as she grows out of her beautific childhood into a terrible relationship where she is beaten by her sadistic lover. This film packs more soul per square inch than anything from the past two decades...
...placed bets on Job, we’ve all accepted that. Or at least we do on an intellectual level. But to survive in the real world from day to day, we also have to suppress our cynicism. In every adult, one of the most tenacious stowaways from childhood is a fierce belief that life should be fair, people should be honest and justice should prevail. That’s why we cheer for the good guys and shake our fists at people who try to cheat the system...
...sister for two weeks, and it has actually been fun, for the simple reason that we had our fights long ago and don't need to have them again, and there was so much to talk about that we couldn't have with nonsiblings present, stuff from childhood when our hearts were open, and now we carry it everywhere we go. We were in London, having supper at the pub on the Thames where the gallows once stood where the highwayman Jack Sheppard swung back in the time of George I, and the river reminded us of the Mississippi...
...children had been there, they would have been bored silly long before the conversation got around to the pistol, and they'd have started talking about the reform of the House of Lords or something, but the truth is I am terribly interested in what happened in my childhood, there being fewer and fewer people left who remember it, and with siblings, your minds meld and you piece together the story of the big Keillor family meeting at our house in 1947--no need for footnotes or apology, you just sit down in Les Deux Magots cafe and hash...