Word: french
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Mark Linkous, lead singer of Sparklehorse, lives in a secluded farmhouse in Virginia and has a penchant for wearing white Stetsons onstage, the group is considerably better known in Europe than in the U.S. Portuguese, French, German and British web sites lauding the band's first album Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot and its latest effort, Good Morning Spider, attest to this. They have toured Europe successfully, and Spider has been rated album of the year for 1998 by The London Sunday Times, also muscling its way into Top Ten lists of various magazines. The show last weekend was part of the band...
Hwang attacks cultural and social prejudices such as these in his account of the demise of Rene Gallimard, a French consul living in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution of the '60s. The plot is based on a true story of an affair between a French diplomat and a Chinese actress that became public in 1986 with expected notoriety. The Chinese actress, who supposedly bore the diplomat's child, was, in fact, both...
...teenagers in the early '60s, best friends Toni and Chris glorified everything French, fell in love with la vie boheme and, most importantly, rejected the suburban wasteland and lifestyle their parents submitted to. The mass of generic houses at the end of the London Underground Metropolitan Line, referred to as Metroland, disgusted and frightened these two aspiring artists (one poet, one photographer). The view of Metroland from the train is both boring and ominous-mile after mile of conformity, complacency and security...
...like Chris and Toni: the City of Life. Throughout the movie, but especially in Paris, the excited soundtrack and overlapping scenes and transitions give the sense that the city holds the key to everything Chris is seeking. The ultimate manifestation of the freedom he craves is found in his French girlfriend, Annick. One of the most passionately played characters of the movie, French actress Elsa Zylberstein brings to the role everything her character gives Chris: honesty, sincerity and a direct confrontation with the exuberant reality of life. An alluring face and a minimal number of sexual inhibitions, along with...
...Needless to say, the Zone feels challenged. Russell's on new turf now, and he just better watch out. Nick doesn't like competition, especially in the way of seedy men who speak French. Both succumb quite naturally to a battle of the egos, a rivalry that promises to be...well, quite boring, actually...