Word: marias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visitors to the town, an hour's drive northwest of Cannes, usually came to view its medieval ruins-a chateau, a church, towers and gates that had decayed into an exquisite stone latticework. In 1961, Bargème found a benefactress-or rather, Madame Germaine De Maria, now 56, found Bargème. Their relationship has led to more distress than Bargème has known in several centuries...
Modest Retreat. "I have enjoyed everything a rich woman can have in life," Madame De Maria announced after a visit. "And all I desire now is a modest retreat where I can read and reflect. I'd like to be able to chat with a shepherd in a field at sundown and munch hard-boiled eggs." With that, she asked the town fathers to let her pay for the restoration of Bargème's ruins and take up residence in the town...
...give a hoot about any culture minister," said Isnard. "We are masters in our own village." He told Madame De Maria that her "presence in Bargème has been a catastrophe for this village." Last week he issued a decree of his own: if Malraux's decision is not reversed, "we will make Bargeme as ugly a village as we know how." As a start, he threatened to paint every building in the village red, blue and green...
...Honda montorbike in a sliver lame pants-suit with a blue choker and helmet. Rosaline (Denise Huot), in a navy blue suit and white boots, also arrives on a Honda (which, at the opening performance, nearly sailed over the footlights and into the audience), while the other two ladies, Maria (Kathleen Dabney) and Katherine (Marian Hailey), appear on foot. The Princess' courtier Boyet (Thomas Ruisinger), in a blue jacket with yellow handkerchief, white ducks, bow tie, and black-and-white shoes, is a U.S. Southerner with a duly droll drawl...
...with Moreau herself that the director achieves his finest work. She has always had trouble juggling erotica and neurotica, and some of her latest films (Viva Maria, Sailor from Gibraltar) have made her seem to be slipping. With Bride she regains her stature as one of France's major actresses. As she approaches each deadly assignment, Moreau exhales a melancholy resignation that gives the scenes the inevitability of a tribal rite, at once primitive and sophisticated...