Word: loulou
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...celebrity-filled front row. The material mattered more than the scene?more than the next It handbag. I remember visiting Yves Saint Laurent's studio for an haute couture preview when the designer himself was still working, fitting dresses on models. Saint Laurent and his aide-de-camp Loulou de La Falaise were yanking huge bolts of color-saturated Abraham silk down from the shelves and spinning out a fantasy scene of a hot summer day in New Orleans circa 1860, complete with big taffeta skirts and wide-brimmed hats. It was as if the fabric were speaking to him?...
DIED. MAURICE PIALAT, 77, acclaimed French film director; of kidney failure; in Paris. In dramas such as Police, Loulou and The Mouth Agape, the auteur painted uncompromising, unforgettable portraits of desolation. His characters--cops, priests, kids on the run, deathbed parents--were sacred monsters in strangled agony...
...Ghergoh range, searching for fading ocher smears of mountain goats and jellyfish. Much of the art has been damaged, some by Islamic fundamentalists on a Taliban-like crusade to chisel the world into compliance with their interpretation of religious law. But most of the embellishments are by tourists. "Loulou," one writes. Most scrawl dates. A German tells Keenan he likes "the way in which 'modern artists' had made their own contributions to the sites." Keenan's subsequent rants take Sahara Man far off the Tuareg trail. He has already gone in search of things that don't interest the Tuareg...
...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 to have time for melodramatic effects like lopping off his ear. In such films as Loulou and A Nos Amours, Pialat has sullenly railed against the strictures of French bourgeois life. In Van Gogh, he has found a kindred spirit; for both, artistic compromise is a crime against humanity. Jacques Dutronc plays the painter as a | troubled man (but not a madman) with a mission, a sort...
Director Maurice Pialat (Loulou, A Nos Amours) and Screenwriter Catherine Breillat know that police work is more talk than action, and they allow the third-degree sessions to wear down the viewer as well the suspect. The cumulative effect, though, is bracing. Police is a stark vision of a forlorn specialist, doomed to be brilliant at his job. Depardieu...