Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thoughts in voice-overs la Kevin in "The Wonder Years." Of course, the issues at stake are more perverse. "They say a man who screws a woman honors her," we hear after Paul rebuffs her advances. Later, she observes, "Women are the victims men need for atonement" and "Love is dumb--it's just a power trip." Perhaps Breillat wanted to instill some intellectual momentum by exposing us to Marie's inner musings. The voiceovers awkwardly drive the slow, slow scenes. Ducey's throaty voice (amplified by French gutturals) can be irritating as she incessantly harps about her appetite...
...Some might construe Marie as a nymphomaniac who needs to do the nasty several different ways to recharge her batteries. Were it not for Marie's voiceovers, the film would appear to be more about different types of sex than different types of love. Yet it's difficult to view Breillat's work as pornographic, because it thinks too much and projects an entertainingly cynical attitude towards the act, In many ways this looks like one of those hazy foreign films with lots of talk and no plot. But provocative fantasies and bitter narration drive out all the mundane, leaving...
...coming back, or if I even wanted them to. For a band so magical on recording, the show had been incredibly flat and lifeless. The promise of the show died in the middle of the opener "Rescue" and was only recaptured in spurts: the biting "The Back Of Love," a rejuvenated, energetic version of "The Cutter" and a sensitive rendition of latest album's title track...
...Premise: The story of a captain's daughter and a common sailor who fall in love on the HMS Pinafore, this was the first smash hit for Gilbert and Sullivan and still remains one of the three most popular pieces in their repertoire today...
Loeb's progeny have proved as impressive a legacy as his philanthropy. One son went on to become ambassador to Denmark while grandson Edgar Bronfman Jr., billionaire head of Seagram Co., co-wrote Celine Dion's "To Love You More," which cracked the U.S. top 10 charts...