Word: diguian
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...history, to a young writer in May 1995 - the final month of his 14 years at the Elysée. The writer went on to put those words into the script of Le Promeneur du Champs de Mars (Walker on the Champs de Mars), director Robert Guédiguian's spare, focused film about Mitterrand's final years - in which the President dictates his memoirs and hones his legacy while wracked with the prostate cancer that will end his life...
...with Nixon, the years out of office and finally death have a way of dousing polemical fires. "When people see this film, all the controversies about Mitterrand tend to shrink away," says director Guédiguian, a communist. "It talks about the legend, about the King. The time is far enough away now for us to begin to see him as a whole." Guédiguian's main character, crafted in stunning depth and complexity by actor Michel Bouquet, is known simply as le Président; he smiles more and projects less personal authority than the original, but shares...
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