Word: granier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre...
...Granier-Deferre's talents perfectly suit that spirit. The textures of a period costume, the mood of a grand hotel or a diplomatic corps tennis tournament-these he dreamily recaptures for us in a way that gives the film its strangely innocent, almost wistful quality. How one wishes that the revolutionary politics of our age had actually been conducted with the elegance and civility depicted here. If only history had Granier-Deferre's good taste, and had kept the blood and violence offstage, so that the sound of the gramophone playing tangos had not been drowned...
After she finished Saga, Susan found her Frenchman. He turned out to be Pierre Granier-Deferre, who directed her first nude scene (with Charles Aznavour) in Paris in August and then married her. She now shuttles between a couple of cottages in Chelsea and an apartment in suburban Paris. France is for weekends and vacation, because it is about the only civilized country in the world where Susan has any privacy -Saga has not played there...