Word: demie
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even though both work from the same source, Henri Murger's 19th century novel Scenes de la vie de boheme, where Puccini draws his demi-monde of starving artists with heavy strokes of romantic melodrama, Kaurismaki chooses ironic distance and absurd comedy. The result is a witty but frustrating film, whose saving grace is the beauty of its images of Paris...
...DEMI MOORE...
...Demi Moore...
INDECENT PROPOSAL asks us to believe that a billionaire who looks uncannily like Robert Redford needs to buy sex. Granted, Diana, his quarry, looks uncannily like Demi Moore, but still, $1 million for a quickie? No doubt he gets off on control; there might have been an interesting movie in that. But this ga-ga film goes for the moral dilemma. Diana and her husband (Woody Harrelson) debate the offer forever before she accepts. They quarrel while Diana and her one-night stand get lovey-dovey, but then things turn out fine. Because director Adrian Lyne takes all this...
...Year of the Killer Woman -- of the vixen, nanny or best friend who uses sex as the appetizer for destruction. And 1993 could be the Year of the Woman as Door Prize. In Honeymoon in Vegas, Mad Dog and Glory and the forthcoming Indecent Proposal, starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore, a young woman is the gift one man offers another. "You couldn't get away with this retro idea with any other kind of person," fumes Khouri. "Would Eddie Murphy star in a movie where he was a gift to a white person...