Word: impressionists
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Sunday focuses its first act on George Seurat, the impressionist artist who created “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte.” The opening act, set in the 1880s, follows the progress of George’s work, presenting snapshots of the various individuals that provide inspiration for the painting—a baker, a nurse, a boatman, et al. Their appearances are brief, their depth non-existent; they exist to the audience only as they exist to George. Yet George, who skillfully observes his subjects—effortlessly taking them apart...
...master of the dot in French painting? Georges Seurat, most would answer. But there was at least one other: Seurat's friend and luminous fellow painter, Neo-Impressionist Paul Signac (1863-1935). Signac, an avid yachtsman, helped create the French Riviera as a subject for painting--and Saint-Tropez, where he settled from 1892 on, as a mecca for tourism. His pursuit of pure color sensation, the yellow of beaches and the purple of shade under the umbrella-pines, made his canvases radical in their time. Yet to a modern eye, his paradisiacal view of the world--a world...
...confident about a case." The French, he says, will not send a man back to a "barbaric" country where he was tried without being present to defend himself. If Tricaud is right, the chase will be over. DiBenedetto, after finally bagging his quarry, will watch Einhorn disappear into the Impressionist painting in which he has lived for the past four years. And the charmed Einhorn, convicted of a horrific murder, will have won a sentence that defies logic and human consideration: Life in the south of France...
...Rory Bremner, an impressionist and comedian, certainly perked up one of the Hague trips. Bremner, who was writing about the election for the Sunday Telegraph but was banned from the Labour press bus on the grounds that he was not really a journalist - his TV impressions of Blair are rather cutting - sat in front of me in the coach. Hague kept popping out of Bremner's mouth, his voice and mannerisms so perfect one wondered whether Hague in fact hadn't somehow slipped in beside Bremner. The local press clustered around the comedian at a stop in a Portsmouth shopping...
...wife, production designer and costumer Catherine Martin, have found an intelligent nexus of sense and sensibility. They have created a fantasy Paris where everything is not only possible but gorgeous as well. The camera hovers over a cityscape that looks like a perfect cardboard diorama. Dancers' skirts swirl in Impressionist pixilation. "Don't wanna listen?" the film seems to ask the musically challenged viewer. "Then just watch...