Word: depardieu
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...Gerard Depardieu is as charismatic as the length of his infamous nose in this refreshing adaptation of the French classic. Watch out for the rhyming English subtitles...
...shame that Gerard Depardieu's visa didn't expire for real...before he ever made this horrendous romantic comedy with Andie Macdowell of the ubiquitous long brown hair and the occasional talent...
...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...
...sights on America, with his first Hollywood film, Green Card. In this featherweight comedy he is a French musician looking for residence status and finding love and sweet sorrow with Andie MacDowell in exotic Manhattan. For Depardieu, though, the piece is just a five-finger exercise. Director Peter Weir, who wrote the film for the actor, is looking for charm -- any star can manufacture that -- without Depardieu's scary power. The bear is reduced to a puppy...
Close up, offscreen, Depardieu gives you the charm and the power. The man can swagger sitting down. His lank hair, which looks as if he swiped it from a schoolgirl who has played hooky all year long, frames a huge face -- bulbous nose and ship-prow chin dominating the small, lively eyes. Devouring a steak over lunch at the swank George V hotel in Paris, he cascades opinions on any subject, from Dostoyevsky to David Letterman, punctuating his effusions with grand, intense gestures. When a waitress arrives to pour the St. Pourcain, Depardieu proffers the larger of his two stem...