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...enemy gunfire in the town square, then fell into a pleasureless marriage with a slimy hustler named Costa (Jean-Pierre Bacri). By 1952, when most of Entre Nous takes place, each woman is eager to escape the emotional claustrophobia of cooking the meals, chaperoning the children, counterfeiting passion as Monsieur Wrong rolls toward her in bed. To the anger and chagrin of their husbands, Lena and Madeleine find that ecstatic escape in each other's souls...
DIED. Jacques Tati, 75, whimsical French film maker, forever associated with his gangly, amiable and bewildered persona Monsieur Hulot; of a lung blood clot. A droll mime, Tati made films (Mr. Hulot's Holiday, 1954; the Oscar-winning Mon Onde, 1958; four others) that were meticulously wrought explosions of philosophical slapstick with little dialogue and less plot, suggesting that modern values are topsy-turvy. Said he: "What I am trying to prove is that at bottom everyone is amusing...
...Monsieur Count, you won't have her, you won't! Because he's a great lord, he thinks he's a great genius. Nobility, fortune, rank, station all these make him so proud! And what did he do to deserve such advantages? Went to the trouble of being born, that's all! For the rest he's ordinary enough. Whereas I--by God! Lost among the obscure crowd, I've had to deploy more skill and cunning just to survive than it's taken to rule all of Spain for the last hundred years... (Leib...
...customary Olympian hauteur. In a series of campaign rallies last week, France's incumbent President denounced Socialist Contender Francois Mitterrand as a captive of the Communists. "From now on," Giscard told his supporters in Dole, "whether he wants to or not, whether he knows it yet or not, Monsieur Mitterrand is also speaking on behalf of the Communists." Warming to this theme at a rally in Dijon, Giscard declared that "if Mitterrand is elected, it will be Commu nist order or Socialist disorder...
...turned a campaign appearance in Nevers into a fuming Marxist defense. "Don't insult [leftist voters] who want to live in freedom from the anguish of unemployment!" he challenged, addressing Giscard. Preying on the President's upper-class background and aristocratic style, Mitterrand went on: "I remind Monsieur Giscard d'Estaing that the people conquered freedom almost two centuries ago against the old feudal or der, and against the feudalism of money, and that the people are fighting for free dom today against the narrow, selfish caste personified by Giscard...