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...drifted from one version of a peace plan to another, apparently moved more by shifting public pressures than by events. Late last month Vice President Al Gore tried to sell Aristide on a plan that would leave Haiti's most powerful man, Port-au-Prince police chief Lieut. Colonel Michel Francois, in place without setting a date for the President's own return -- a retreat from the Governors Island accord signed last summer...
Deep Forest was conceived by Michel Sanchez and Eric Mouquet, two French musicians who blended New Age electronics with UNESCO field recordings of music from Zaire, the Solomon Islands, Burundi, Tibesti and the Sahel...
...plot doesn't make it less interesting-it provides an opportunity to hear the Truffaut rattle off dozens of maxims about love. Other shots try to make sense of the flawed plot; a sign in the middle of the city reads, "The dragnet is being drawn about Michel Poiccard!". It's not a great tactic for police trying to sneak up on a criminal, but a sure-fire way to let the audience know what's going...
...relationship, however, more than adequately substitues for an intricate plot line. The dialogue and the camera delve into the personalities of Michel and Patricia, giving us a close look at two intense characters. The audience sees every aspect of them-which was undoudtedly shocking in 1960. One scene shows, Patricia making faces at herself in the mirror, as if no one's watching her. In another, Michel and Patricia are in bed together, talking about...
Although the film challenges the definition of the typical crime-and-love movie, the last scene is as much of tear-jerker as the end of any "classic." In this scene, Michel staggers down the street, chased by the police (who have just shot him in the back) and Patricia, who just turned him in because she wasn't sure she loved him. He falls, with just enough life in him to speak his last words to Patricia. But, as we might expect from such a film, these last words are not those of a noble hero...