Word: maudits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...France under the title Gazon Maudit (which translates literally as Cursed Lawn--never mind!), the movie breaks the rules of farce; its characters begin as caricatures, then fill out into complex people whose openness to love surprises no one more than themselves. Brisk and sassy, French Twist gives great fun. It's a nice way to start the movie year: in bed with three genial lunatics...
...that emerged nearly as soon as it did, Lautrec is a myth -- the crippled, dwarfish child of aristocratic birth, condemned to deformity by his own family's inbreeding, who defied his father and fled from the confines of his class to join the outcasts in Montmartre, becoming the peintre maudit of French bohemia, recording its life and seedy joys as no artist had ever done and dying, at last, of drink at 36. What a recipe...