Word: gaspard
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...just after World War I, and a young woman named Mathilde (Amelie pixie Audrey Tautou) discovers her soldier fiancée, Manech (Gaspard Ulliel), has been sentenced to death for self-mutilation. Rather than being executed, Manech and his codefendants were sent by their commanding officer out of their trench to face certain death during a battle with the Germans...
...story is simple enough. An innocent soldier, Manech (Gaspard Ulliel), has been exiled to no-man's-land by his superiors and is presumed dead. His fiancé--lovely, crippled Mathilde (Amélie's Audrey Tautou)--does all she can to find him. It's a fable of the noblest obsession, reflected in Tautou's poignant brown eyes. But it's just a part of Jeunet's grand, sad and comic panorama, which wants you to know everything about every character...
...soldier's widow, Odile (the unimprovable Emmanuelle Beart), and her two children, 13-year-old Philippe (Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet) and 7-year-old Cathy (Clemence Meyer), are trapped, unable to move on a refugee-clogged road from Paris in 1940. When their car is destroyed, a mysterious youth, Yvan (Gaspard Ulliel), appears and leads them to a deserted chateau...
Beginning in 1962, CIA officers began crossing the names of captured commandos off the pay rosters and telling their families they were dead; SOG officers continued the practice. "I think it's terrible, I really do," says George Gaspard, who as a Green Beret major in Vietnam ran a related SOG program code named Oplan-34B. "As an agent handler, that would be appalling to me to write somebody off the books that...
...There are certain works I've been dying to perform," Vosgerchian said. "For one, Gaspard de la Nuit, by Ravel. I'd also love to be able to play the second etude by Chopin at 6 a.m. perfectly without being warmed...