Word: micheles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actions. Lucien's collaboration springs from the peculiarities of his personality and situation, particularities of his personality and situation, particularly his brutality familial resentments and rustic simplicity; given the opportunity, he would just as easily have joined the resistance. Two other recent films continue this dialogue on the occupation. Michel Mitrani's Black Thursday (Les Gutchets du Louvre) and Michel Drach's Les Violons du Bal. Focusing their attention on the deportation of French Jewry, these directors too explore the occupation in relation to individual experiences, providing a perspective complimentary to Malle...
...VIOLONS DU BAL, on the other hand, while it presents the occupation as a personal experience, attempts to go beyond the purely accidental and individual in linking its concerns with the wider questions posed by Ophuls. Its with the wider questions posed by Ophuls. Its protagonist. Michel (Jean-Louis Trintignant), is shooting a film on his childhood experiences as a Jew during the occupation. The present in which the film is being shot is in black and white; the past it depicts, in lush, slow paced color sequences. All the actors in Michel's film are exquisitely beautiful, particularly...
...Michel Guérard, at 41 the youngest of the four, whose two-star Les Prés et les Sources d'Eugénie honors the old cuisine in flavor but not always in calories...
...Kuzyk and Vermont's Michel Leveau matched goals midway through the second period and Marzo got what proved to be the winning marker on a rebound with 27 seconds left in the period...
Says University of Michigan Political Scientist Michel Oksenberg: "It's very much in keeping with Mao's style to withdraw upon occasion for a period of quiescence, realizing that the overall forces in China are such that a period of unity is called for and that even his presence is not particularly helpful for that." Of course, it is conceivable that in the coming months Mao might register dissatisfaction with recent events. But it seems more likely that his absence is a voluntary move by a man who, despite his treatment as a living god, has had some...