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...whom Irene hires, and who becomes the diva's personal maid as well as accompanist, is shown always in shadow, often in transit, and frequently on staircases. Indeed, her nondescript character becomes almost obtrusive in the film. Irene, by contrast, is invariably in the spotlight, observed not her elusive lover, Jacques (Samuel Labarthe). While Sophie is famished and shabbily dressed, a perpetual onlooker, Irene, the consummate actress, is adorned with smiles and the white dress she will wear in performance throughout the movie. Though the characters appears exceedingly dissimilar in these respects, they do evince integral internal similarities...
...other subsidiary characters occupy themselves almost exclusively with "principles" above personal affairs. One is Irene's lover Jacques, who, though a member of the Resistance, has no concern for other individual 's lives and tells Irene that he would willingly kill her husband to secure their happiness together. The other principled characters is Benoit Weizman, a young Jewish communist and aspiring Resistance fighter whom Sophie meets when travelling from Portugal to London. These who characters and their relationships with Irene and Sophie respectively, illuminate both affinities and distinctions between the diva and accompanist...
Irene's life, while eventful, is reliable. The lyrics to a song she sings repeatedly throughout the movie translate as, "Tell me that I'm beautiful, that I'll be beautiful forever." Husband, lover and Sophie are always eager to maintain this fact, and the movie several times cuts from Irene's face to the statue of an angle above the London pub of that name. Despite her demanding and abrasive personality, Irene assumes a semi-divine status, the image of the perfection to those surrounding her: on the other hand, leads a temporary and contingent existence. She will retain...
...most moviegoers' minds, Vietnam is Oliver Stone territory -- the metaphorical battleground on which he has played out his burly war games of the conflicted American spirit. French filmmakers have also taken bittersweet & tours of Vietnam; in movies like The Lover and Indochine, Saigon has the poignant glamour of a beautiful woman's photo in an old man's memory book...
...past, Crimson reporters have followed sources to check their license plate numbers, talked to people's neighbors to try to get background information about them. One even staked out a person's home to wait for a suspected lover to appear...