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...governments." This view is also heard abroad, though mostly in nongovernmental circles. The Swiss newspaper Journal de Genève asserts that the agreement "suggests to the entire world that it is possible to change the direction of U.S. policy through acts of terrorism and blackmail." French Political Commentator Edouard Sablier observes: "Of course it was ransom. By definition, ransom is anything that has to be paid to secure the release of a captured person." The critics attack some specific parts of the agreement, notably the provision that Americans with claims against Iran cannot sue in U.S. courts...
Years of practice haven't brought Edouard Choiseul (Jean Rochefort), a professional pianist, closer to perfecting the one art that is his true passion -- womanizing. As his ex-wife (Annie Girardot) explains to him, he has slept with his wife's best friends and his best friends' wives and no one trusts him any longer. At first a farcial, light-hearted portrayal of an over extended, frantic womanizer, the film becomes a dramatic, often poignant probing of Edouard's moral and psychological dilemma...
...rusier's little Talisman of 1888, for instance, with its plain flat patches of color that demonstrated so vividly to Denis and Bonnard that art should not be mere representation, but rather "a transposition, a caricature, the passionate equivalent of an experienced sensation"; or the 1890 self-portrait by Edouard Vuillard, done in brilliant polemical slabs of nonnaturalist color. But it is to the great paintings at the center of the exhibition that one returns, those hinges upon which art swung from the 19th century into the 20th, disclosing a new amplitude of color and form as it turned. Rarely...
...CAGE AUX FOLLES Directed by Edouard Molinaro Screenplay by Francis Veber, Edouard Molinaro, Marcello Danon, Jean Poiret...
...bestselling Le Mai Français (The French Sickness); Health Minister Simone Veil, whom polls have shown to be the most popular figure in French politics; Interior Minister Christian Bonnet, who has been widely praised for his department's skill in negotiating the release of kidnaped Belgian Baron Edouard-Jean Empain (TIME, April...