Word: micheles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is a nasty bit of French baggage about a pair of sisters (Romy Schneider and Mascha Gomska) who fall in with the insurance-fraud schemes of a provincial lawyer (Michel Piccoli) and end up in his bed. Director Girod handles the sexual passages with a cool discretion that contrasts oddly with the hot pornographic spirit he brings to the trio's murderous doings. The film's gruesome centerpiece is a bloodbath double murder, followed by an acid bath of several days' duration to dispose of the corpses. A few critics have suggested that Le Trio Infernal...
...trumpet lessons. Four years later, he bowed to the teacher's urging and packed the boy off to Paris to enter the Conservatoire. For over a decade before records began to spread his reputation, Andre took any job he could get: TV commercials, jazz dates, concerts in the Michel Legrand orchestra and endless La Bohemes in the pit of the Opera Comique. Says he: "Look, every day for 44 years, my father went down into the mines with a smile on his face. How can I not be happy playing music...
...France, holds him for ransom on an isolated farm while threatening to kill him if their demands are not met by the government. Eventually he and his captors all die in a police action that looks like a rescue operation but is planned from the start by its leader (Michel Aumont) as a massacre. Throughout, Chabrol scores the kind of points one expects from him. Most of the Nada gang are working out their personal problems through political activity. The same may be said of their official pursuers up to the highest level of the French government, whose ministers...
...strike that spread to the entire mail system, paralyzing thousands of dependent businesses. In the past fortnight meanwhile, coal miners, railway men, electric-utility workers, hospital employees, customs officials, Paris bus drivers and even veterinarians have walked off their jobs for at least a day. Last week Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski outraged union leaders by sending in police to oust picketers from postal facilities. As a result, a majority of France's 21 million workers are expected to respond to a union call for a 24-hour general strike this week...
...betraying the "union of the left" that was formed in 1972. Giscard, however, has been subject to sniping from Gaullists within the ranks of his parliamentary majority; they fear that he may be abandoning his predecessor's foreign policy of "grandeur." Another critic is former Foreign Minister Michel Jobert; he is currently touring the country, both promoting his bestselling autobiography and accusing Giscard of doing too little to control inflation...