Word: hunchback
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Florette, set in the 1920s, described the attempt of the clever Papet (Yves Montand) and his dim-witted nephew Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil)--the last remaining members of what used to be the richest and most glorious family in the region--to wrest the land of a neighboring farmer, a hunchback...
Manon of the Spring picks up the story after a gap of a decade or so, when the hunchback's daughter Manon (Emmanuelle Beart) decides to take her revenge. Although both films were made at the same time and star mostly the same actors, Manon was released separately, both here and in France. You do not really have to have seen the first half to enjoy Manon, but it helps...
...course of an hour's interview, he will miraculously inhabit the skewed brains of two dozen apparitions. Among them: a meat-eating Mahatma Gandhi, Gomer Pyle with a case of VD, Elvis Presley drafted for Viet Nam, Wheel of Fortune's Pat Sajak and, of course, a singing hunchback. Here is Williams speaking about his role as Good Morning, Vietnam's gonzo deejay: "God, it can't get any more right than this! If this isn't the right part, then there's nothing. I'll be doing game shows. I'll be saying ((and here he imitates Sajak)), 'Show...
...villainy, crimped and primped, but an ample, well-rooted assertion of masculine self-sufficiency, of immunity to the judgments of common men. He possesses himself as confidently as he grasps his wealth and standing in the community. His antagonist Jean has toiled since birth under the curse of a hunchback. He knows all about burdens, yet his endurance under new ones is almost unbearable to witness. When at last he cracks and curses God, Depardieu makes us feel the ground shifting not just under his feet but under our own as well. As for Auteuil, bound to his uncle...
...some, reason, this always causes me to reflexively bend down and move my shoulders next to my ears as I pass in front of their cameras, as if I can some how render myself invisible by assuming bad posture. I wind up being photographed as a hunchback with a disgustingly pained expression on my face, and they wind up with photos that will surely be used at a later date for black mail purposes...