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...energy market, businesses want that check to arrive soon. European companies pay as much as 30% more than their American counterparts for electricity. "Until the higher energy costs faced by European businesses are reduced, there will always be a big gap in competitiveness with the U.S.," says Daniel Cloquet, an energy expert with UNICE, the leading E.U. business lobby group. Countries that have liberalized their energy markets over the past decade - including the Scandinavian nations, the U.K. and Germany - have seen electricity and gas bills drop by 23%. In France, the situation is complicated by the upcoming presidential and parliamentary...
...smokers entirely agree. Complained Walt Marotz of Holyoke, Minn., a worker in Cloquet, Minn.: "They're starting to pry into our personal business now. I'll stop smoking at work, but what I do at home, there's no way they can stop...
Only cinematographer Ghislain Cloquet pulls off anything exceptional, though, admittedly, he has a lot to work with. His camera roves up and down the rocky shores, and there are scenes that would fit spectacularly in a National Geographic special. And in the mossy, dark house, he plays with light and shadow, angle and object, to striking effect...
...Cloquet is the only one reaching, though. The acting, the writing and the direction break no new ground, and provoke little thought. Sentimental and airy. I Sent a Letter to My Love is more posicard than epistle, asking little of the sender, and demanding little from the recipient. Is is just the sort of gossamer summery flick that may challenge The Last Metro for top spot at the Welles...
...Later, a small army of fox-hunters glide on horseback through an early morning mist. Across the foggy plain they ride, their red coats flapping behind them. Polanski takes his time with every scene, the effects ranging from mesmerizing to anesthetizing. The sumptuous photography of Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislain Cloquet rescues several scenes from fatal tedium, always enchanting the eye even when the mine has wandered. Their compositions of toiling farmers framed by a purple sky are almost painfully beautiful if more than a little reminiscent of Nesto Almendros' work in Day of Heaven...