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...personal as well as international relations, wartime France created odd alliances and fierce resistance. Lena (Isabelle Huppert), a Belgian Jew, emerged from an internment camp with her sad-sack husband Michel (Guy Marchand) and a handmade marital straitjacket. Madeleine (Miou Miou) saw her glamorous first husband die from enemy gunfire in the town square, then fell into a pleasureless marriage with a slimy hustler named Costa (Jean-Pierre Bacri). By 1952, when most of Entre Nous takes place, each woman is eager to escape the emotional claustrophobia of cooking the meals, chaperoning the children, counterfeiting passion as Monsieur Wrong rolls...
...Marchand is splendid too: he can trip over his feelings or break the viewer's heart with equal dexterity. At film's end Kurys reveals that Marchand and Huppert are playing the director's own parents, 30 troubled years ago. Autobiography is often the excuse for retrospective vindictiveness, but Kurys is too mixed in her sympathies, too talented at her craft, to harbor such notions. She knows that filming well is the best revenge. -By Richard Corliss
...Schofield Coryell, "Israel, Marchand de Mort," (Israel, Merchant of Death). Afrique-Asie April 12, 1982; also see Howard, MERIP Reports...
...life organizations. "The problem is how to ensure the rights of the handicapped to treatment, when the parents, doctors and the hospital agree not to provide it," says Gary Curran of the American Life Lobby. Another worry is that a bioethics committee could not act quickly enough. Warns Paul Marchand, of the Association for Retarded Citizens: "If these infants are not treated within days, hours, they will...
...moves would quickly create 70,000 jobs, an independent study released in May put the actual number of new positions at between 15,000 and 30,000. "We found that there is a very weak link between the reduction in the work week and increased employment," said Economist Olivier Marchand, one of three authors of the study. Some two-thirds of the 3,700 firms surveyed said they had not added a single new worker since the work week was shortened. Meanwhile, the French unemployment rate has risen from 7.2% when the Socialists came to power...