Word: jacquese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHAT LUST? WHAT LIFE? NOT FOR MAUrice Pialat the gorgeously gaudy tones in which Hollywood paints the fine artist. The French writer-director's VAN GOGH is a portrait -- almost a still life -- of a somber fellow who is too busy creating masterpieces in the final months of his life...
But France seems increasingly lonely. Though it claims support from Italy, Spain and Belgium, its isolation deepened when the E.C.'s point man in the agriculture negotiations, commissioner Ray MacSharry of Ireland, resigned, blaming E.C. Commission President Jacques Delors for excessive sympathy for his fellow French. The chief farm negotiator...
Meanwhile, though, a U.S.-E.C. trade war could kill a deal among the 108 members of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to lower many barriers to commerce. So while starting to list U.S. products for counter-retaliation, the E.C. also moved to reopen negotiations with Washington. France's...
WRITERS: GERARD BRACH AND JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD
The nymphet is a vamp in The Lover (L'Amant), Jean-Jacques Annaud's adaptation of the Marguerite Duras best seller. With its carnal couplings and a hint of hard core, the film was a Hollywood-size hit in France. Annaud also took some flak: for shooting a very French...