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ENTRE NOUS. Two young wives (Isabelle Huppert and Miou-Miou) feel marooned in the stay-at-home '50s and ignite a protofeminist friendship. In this bittersweet comedy, Writer-Director Diane Kurys alchemizes anger into understanding...
...such a tramp?" the win some shlemiel (Coluche) asks his best friend's girl (Isabelle Huppert). "Oh, I've had lots of practice," she shrugs. "I was lucky to start very young." When Writer-Director Bertrand Blier turns his attention to the precocious young (a 13-year-old genius in Get Out Your Handkerchiefs; a budding stepdaughter in Beau-Pere) he creates sexual fables poised on the brink of moral anarchy. No such luck in My Best Friend's Girl (La Femme de Mon Pole), an "adult" triangle about a sad-sack disc jockey and a tall...
...film opens as Lena (Isabelle Huppert), a Belgian Jew and character based on Kury's mother, enters a detention camp during WWII. She is allowed to leave by agreeing to marry Michel, also a Jew (Guy Machard). Together they escape to Italy. At the same time in German occupied France, Madeline (Miou-Miou) weds a fellow art student who soon after is murdered by the Nazis...
...Huppert maintains a consistently powerful presence throughout the film, providing the more stable thoughtful facet of the seemingly inseparable pair. Miou, as the more flighty impulsive Madeline, delivers a performance that combines an almost childlike impulsiveness and love for adventure with an almost preoccupied, melancholy...
Marchand is splendid too: he can trip over his feelings or break the viewer's heart with equal dexterity. At film's end Kurys reveals that Marchand and Huppert are playing the director's own parents, 30 troubled years ago. Autobiography is often the excuse for retrospective vindictiveness, but Kurys is too mixed in her sympathies, too talented at her craft, to harbor such notions. She knows that filming well is the best revenge. -By Richard Corliss