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...promise has been at least 15 years in the making. Carpentier, having invented bio-engineered heart valves three decades ago, sought next to create the ultimate artificial heart. His efforts got a major boost in 1993 when the late French media and aerospace magnate Jean-Luc Lagardère and his Matra aviation group - which was later folded into EADS - offered materials and financial and technical support. Carpentier announced the final step of that collaboration last month, along with the prosthetic heart: the launch of Carmat, a new $9.2 million firm that will build and eventually market the heart. Carmat...
...like Toomey, who serves both at City Hall and in the State House—or champion left-leaning clauses, like Henrietta J. Davis, who frequently proposes wind and solar energy alternatives. Indeed, the only elected official in Cambridge who is not a member of the Democratic Party is Luc D. Schuster, the one School Committee member who belongs to the Green Party...
...film by Philippe Claudel, who is better known, at least in France, as a novelist. In a few minutes her sister, Léa (Elsa Zylberstein), arrives to conduct Juliette to what amounts to her new life - as a guest in Léa's home, which consists of Luc, her grumpy husband, two adopted daughters and Luc's father, who is unfailingly cheerful despite the fact that a stroke has rendered him mute. It's an inherently awkward situation, rendered much more so by the fact that Juliette has just been released from jail, where she served 15 years...
...What film directors have inspired your work? Alan Eggleston, Grand Rapids, Mich. Thousand Years was very much influenced by a Japanese director called [Yasujiro] Ozu. Princess of Nebraska is a tribute to the French New Wave - to directors like Jean-Luc Godard...
...closing scenes of Jean-Luc Godard’s “Le Mépris,” Camille—played by the iconic sixties starlet Brigitte Bardot—abandons her husband for the narcissistic, almost ghoulish American film producer Jeremy Prokosch, played by Jack Palance. Bardot, in a wide-brimmed hat and large black sunglasses that recall Jackie Kennedy, displays a cold yet alluring ambivalence toward her piggish new lover. They exchange brief words, casual affections, but barely understand one another—Bardot’s character speaks no English, Palance’s hardly...