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...other convention is that stuffy, too-sure-off-himself Jean cannot be a figure of sympathy. What he thinks of as a liberated admiration for his wife is reductively possessive and objectifying. Surely he deserves his comeuppance. Yet he is what he is, and the film, while not being forthrightly on Jean's side, explains both why he was drawn to Gabrielle and why he wants to stay with her. It considers a couple of possibilities: that her perfidy has awoken him to her humanness ("You married a woman I'm not," she says, "that's all"); and that such...
...conventional response would be to throw the woman out. But Jean has so lived for the purring gentilities of convention that he cannot face life - his social life, that is, inextricable from his sense of self - without Gabrielle. So they... well, they do what they do. See the movie and find...
...pitch an emotion so the camera just catches it. Chéreau, a distinguished director for the stage as well as for film - Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train and Intimacy being his movies that are best-known in North America - sets the debate of Jean and Gabrielle as a battle between theater (declaiming speeches) and film (imparting emotions...
Ekperi was playing basketball at the National Cathedral School in Washington D.C. with three other friends. After taking a shot and landing on her feet, she sat down on the ground, and then proceeded to lay prone on the floor. The three friends, including Patrick Jean Baptiste ’09, thought that Ekperi was playing a joke and was pretending to be hurt. The two other friends were not Harvard students...
When an ambulance arrived, the medical staff also tried to revive Ekperi, giving her oxygen, CPR, and medication. But they could not rescue her, Jean Baptiste said...