Word: monsieurs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PARIS: With the death of Pamela Harriman, the diplomatic post par excellence is a toss-up between Frank Wisner, the most senior member of the U.S. foreign service, and New York financier Felix Rohatyn. But only Monsieur Felix has the means and Lazard Freres connections to entertain in the grand style of the City of Light...
...middle-class middle ground where emotions are rarely italicized. If moviegoers are to be touched, they must do half the work, trolling for subtext, reading a heartbreak into a pensive glance. That ability to conspire with the filmmakers is especially important when viewing Beart in Claude Sautet's Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud, winner of the Cesar for the year's best French film...
...fingerprinting, then just coming into use in Paris, and at "instantaneous" communication by pneumatic tubes. For a time he suspects that one of the villains is his friend John Hay, later to be a U.S. Secretary of State. A gendarme confronts him at an awkward moment: "Oh, dear, Monsieur Adams. This doesn't look good ... Alone with a dead body. Again. Your appetite for mayhem appears insatiable ... It will go more easily with you if you just tell the truth." The suspense here is not unbearable since we know that the real Adams was not guillotined. But in teasing Adams...
Jacquelyn Piro--Cosette during the musical's 1988 Broadway run--brings a delicate urgency to Fantine's struggle for survival. Fired from her job in a factory owned by Valjean, now Monsieur Madeleine, the town's mayor and benefactor, she fears for the survival of her daughter Cosette, kept by an innkeeper in the French countryside. Piro delivers one of the most touching and powerful performances of the evening, "I Dreamed a Dream," as she recalls the only summer she spent with her child's father...
...Tous les Matins du Monde," the story of Monsieur de Sainte Colombe (played by Jean-Pierre Marielle), as narrated by his student, Marin Marais (Gerard Depardieu), is ultimately one of inspiration through lament. Had it not been for the death of Saint Colombe's wife, he would not have withdrawn into a tiny shack on his property where he invented mournful compositions and added a seventh string to the viola. Sainte Colombe is a consummate artist, but also a madman...