Word: luc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joust, a mailed hand clutching the handle of a weapon, a horse's eye going wide in terror. These visions occur, however, not in an epic adventure, but as part of a moral speculation in miniature. Bresson's ascetic attentions converge on the fateful romance of Lancelot (Luc Simon) and Queen Guinevere (Laura Duke Condominas) and extend beyond it to the end of the courtly tradition, as did the original Arthurian legends. What is missing is passion, a quality essential to such a subject. Without it, for all its frosty beauty, Lancelot of the Lake looks like...
...Jean-Luc Godard's Masculine/Feminine Friday and Saturday, March...
...into the reeds on the high ground past the town. Francois could not have heard my call even if he had been there. The sea was beaten right up to the foot of the wall. Its noise was deafening. I started back to the house, knowing that Jean-Luc would be there with the car: There was no longer any beach for him to drive along...
...deux chevaux was there, and Jean-Luc, but Francois was not. When Jean-Luc saw me returning alone, his face tightened. He remembered, I suppose, someone he had once pulled out from the next morning's ebb. I remembered, too. "Call the police," I said. He went for the phone. I went down the crooked steps to the chapel behind the house for a moment's rest before they came...
...Jean-Luc and I got him washed and into bed. When the thunder broke he began to shake with terror and glee. The war, his father, the people on the beach, bombs, planes and lightning were all the same to him for that moment. When the storm finally subsided he went to sleep. He cried out once or twice in the night, but did not awaken...