Word: leotarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Swiss engineer named Paul (Philippe Leotard) finds that she is not quite either. The circumstances of his comfortable life are so neatly arranged that his passions remain unthreatened. He is indeed such a model citizen of his small town that some of the local burghers choose him for a local political post. Paul has the sort of model anonymity that in politics can pass for an identity. As he starts to run for of fice, making the rounds of small political interest groups, he also runs into Adriana. He is drawn to her immediately, and his equilibrium becomes a poor...
...Middle of the World, steady and bright and acted with well-modulated intensity by Carlisi and Leotard, is on less certain ground as political metaphor. The movie begins with some narration about political flux and the process of "normalization" that gives the plot a somewhat schematic cast. Tanner takes trouble to establish the class differences between the two lovers, but he is better at dealing with sexual politics than theoretical ones. The Middle of the World is truer as object lesson than tract, better on the realities of love than the stalled struggle of the classes...
This month's issue makes the answer very clear. The communally run Ms. editorial staff must finally have decided just who its target-group should be. If the ad of the skinny young woman in her Danskin leotard and silk skirt that also recently ran in the New Yorker doesn't give it away, the articles on how to buy a sewing machine, or on Buffy Sainte-Marie, or the photographs of Andre Malraux and Jean Cocteau will. This magazine is for the wealthy, skinny, urban woman who probably has a job as well as a husband and household...
Nureyev's determination is nowhere more evident than in class with Stanley Williams, a coach at the School of the American Ballet. Dressed in thick gray leg warmers and a tired white leotard, Nureyev looks sloppier than the rest. A pianist pumps out This Nearly Was Mine while the class practices rapid combination exercises that end in a burst of squeaking slippers. Nureyev finishes last. Working very slowly, he clears an envelope of space round him in which each ringer, each joint, every muscle locates its place. "Keep the arms closer to the body for balance and to project...
...MIDDLE OF THE WORLD, also made by a Swiss, Alain Tanner (The Salamander), is as coolly intelligent and as subtle as La Paloma is giddy. The film concerns the intense affair between an engineer running for local political office (Philippe Leotard) and a waitress (Olimpia Carlisi). Their joyous mutual carnality nearly convinces them both that they were made for each other. The engineer still believes it, in fact, when the waitress leaves him. This film is wise in the ways and reasons people deceive themselves, rich in its exploration of the blindness that fervor can bring...