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Fortunately, this lame film didn't come out of nowhere. It was a remake of jean-Luc Godard's 1959 classic of the French New Wave, "Breathless (A Bout de souffle)," showing at the Brattle on Sunday. Although the original lacks the tunes of Jerry Lee Lewis, it succeeds everywhere the remake fails. The 1959 "Breathless" is film noir with a capital N, dark and deliciously scary...
...desolate space station -- a decidedly hostile environment. It includes a promenade with a space-age cash machine and a holographic brothel. Through it passes a contentious assortment of humans and aliens. Station Commander Benjamin Sisko, while as courageous and honorable as U.S.S. Enterprise captains James Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard, openly expresses his discontent with his hardship assignment...
...fighting a remarkably effective rearguard action. Nowhere is their clout more in evidence than in France. With good reason, President Francois Mitterrand fears that giving in to the U.S. will inflame the truculent farm lobby and damage his faltering Socialist Party's prospects in legislative elections next March. Luc Guyau, president of the French federation of farmers' unions, warns that the French President had better stay his course. "We will put ourselves in the front lines," he says...
SCHOOLTEACHERS LUC AND ISABELLE BENTZ are hardly extravagant. By day, both teach immigrant children in low-income districts of Paris. At night, the couple returns to the working-class suburb of Sarcelles where, across from a busy train station, they live in a three-bedroom apartment with their daughter and son, ages 3 years and 18 months. The flat is cozy but small, typical of the low-rent units constructed back in the 1950s to house French families repatriated from North Africa. Together, the Bentzes take home $3,600 a month, not a lot for a family of four...
...Bentzes do not have to worry about Luc's retired father. He collects more than 80% of his former salary in pension benefits and has access to free medical care. While most Americans would marvel at these entitlements, the Bentzes see nothing unusual in any of this. "I guess," Luc says, "you can say we're an average French family...