Word: discreeter
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Jean Rochefort has heretofore put his sheepish grin and Slinky-like gait into the service of boulevard comedy. Here he is both more powerful and more discreet, signaling the film's shifting moods with each new spasm of Gilles's anticipation and anguish. Delphine Seyrig, who plays his neighbor, the lovely, slow-witted Yvette, was once the very model of Marienbad chic. It is a pleasure to see those enigmatic eyes widen in what Yvette means to convey as delight, to see her smile squirm at Gilles's gentle ribaldry...
...long ago that the man in the Oval Office considered the court either an adversary to be intimidated or a part of his private preserve, peopled with enough Justices from the political system to allow room for discreet wheeling and dealing behind the scenes...
...supply and then selling a portion at a tidy profit. A number of young professional people add $10,000 to $20,000 to their annual incomes-tax free-by dealing coke. Steve, a young California lawyer who sold marijuana to put himself through law school, now has a small, discreet cocaine business. Says he: "I started selling some to close friends because I couldn't afford to buy it for my wife and myself. We found a way to beat inflation." In fact most traffickers like Steve are engaged in a game that resembles the chain letter or pyramid...
...film badly. When Gilles half-rapes a visitor, the activity is more jarring, more painful to watch, than the plot warrants, simply because it contrasts so sharply with the general torpor. Only one scene is triumphant--when Louise and family friend Yvette (the wonderful Delphine Seyrig, of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie) don slacks for the first time and model them for Gilles, and though it is the opposite of physical flesh-baring, it causes a glee symbolic of the liberation they are going through, and it means just as much as does their new found delight...
...Arabia were in ensely suspicious of the Saddam Hussein regime. If either country?not to mention the warring Iranians?took Hussein's atomic ambitions as seriously as the Israelis did, they would be relieved by the attack. So too the Egyptians. Insists an Israeli Foreign Ministry official: "We have discreet information that the Saudis are happy, and some Egyptian officials have expressed quiet satisfaction...