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...downward path anyway due to high interest rates. The flamboyant statements made by Granville simply gave it a kick in the seat of the pants on the way down." Issues traded on the Paris stock exchange have moved uncertainly since before the May election of Socialist President François Mitterrand, who has a program calling for wholesale nationalization of French banks and industries...
...heart François (Philippe Marlaud), the protagonist of Eric Rohmer's intelligently talkative movie, is every bit as bonkers over his lady as William Hurt is over Kathleen Turner in Body Heat. And Anne (Marie Rivière) is very possibly a greater pain to be with. Too self-absorbed even to fake passion, she does not seem to take even mildly sadistic pleasure in making François, among others, dance to her off-key tunes. It may be that she unconsciously seeks revenge because she has been jilted by her married lover, the aviator...
...François, however, makes all sorts of connections, most of them erroneous. When he spots the aviator leaving her apartment early one morning, he mistakenly assumes that it is after a night of revels and decides to follow him. Sure enough, his quarry picks up another woman, and François, hoping to prove to Anne that the flyer is two-timing her, becomes profoundly interested in his new role as amateur detective. Eventually he is proved wrong again, but luckily for him, his odd behavior attracts the interest of Lucie, an adolescent schoolgirl (Anne-Laure Meury...
...wise, is an implicit commentary on his lugubrious single-mindedness. Lucie is a creature, as Rohmer sees her, of impulse and open air, while Anne is seen mostly in her cramped apartment, which can be seen as the logical extension of her cramped spirit. This, alas, is something François does not notice. The most the movie concedes him is the possibility that by sorting through his many wrong assumptions about the essentially innocent man he was following, he may have taken a small step toward extricating himself from his deluding passion. But like everything else in this sidelong...
...bloom on the Socialist rose was beginning to fade. Inaugurating France's new, high-speed train last week (see SCIENCE), he was greeted with polite applause but no great enthusiasm. Hecklers bearing placards at stations along the way included members of the Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail, a union that enjoys close links to the Socialist Party. Their message: workers still expect Mitterrand to deliver on his promise of lowering unemployment and reducing the work week to 35 hours. The leftist press too has begun to be concerned that Mitterrand...