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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jean R. Miller San Diego
Louise (Simone Signoret) is one of those women. She and her crippled brother Gilles (Jean Rochefort) seem resigned to live out their days exchanging good-natured insults. Louise keeps house and her own counsel; the defiantly cheerful Gilles looks at life from a wheelchair, through a telescope lens. But there is untapped love in them both, and a desperate resolve. Louise places a personal notice in the local paper, asking to meet a "refined gentleman." To her shock and chagrin, the one respondent is Gilles. "My legs are paralyzed," he declares in his first letter, "but my heart is free...
...Jean Rochefort has heretofore put his sheepish grin and Slinky-like gait into the service of boulevard comedy. Here he is both more powerful and more discreet, signaling the film's shifting moods with each new spasm of Gilles's anticipation and anguish. Delphine Seyrig, who plays his neighbor, the lovely, slow-witted Yvette, was once the very model of Marienbad chic. It is a pleasure to see those enigmatic eyes widen in what Yvette means to convey as delight, to see her smile squirm at Gilles's gentle ribaldry...
Heart to Heart respects the charm of the quotidian, finds in its little dramas wisdom and absurdity, sadness and folly-and, above all, liveliness. This cheering, but unsappy outlook is much in evidence as the younger generation of French directors, like Diane Kurys and Jean Charles Tacchella, crawls out from under Francois Truffaut's overcoat. It seems to be an almost exclusively Gallic view, making one want to send the entire American motion picture industry to sum mer school in France...
Both schools and finders say this is not done. Besides, says Atlanta Counselor Jean Hague, a former administrator at the American School of Paris, "we don't have the power to influence the schools." Explains George Conway, admissions director at the prestigious Woodberry Forest School near Orange, Va.: "I've never had a counselor push anybody on me. A misrepresented youngster probably would not do well here, and that wouldn't help the counselor's reputation." Some admissions officers say they do give weight to a recommendation from a counselor they know well and whose judgment...