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DIED. FRANÇOISE SAGAN, 69, French author who at age 19 wrote the best-selling 1954 novel Bonjour Tristesse, about seduction and infidelity among the idle rich, after she failed her exams at the Sorbonne in Paris; of heart and lung failure; in Normandy, France. Born Françoise Quoirez, she took her pen name from a character in Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. She also wrote 30 lesser known novels as well as short stories, plays and movie screenplays...
...sensation of being transported to other places and cultures through the unique language of comix, look no further than Craig Thompson's "Carnet de Voyage" (Top Shelf; 224 pages; $15). Creator of the lauded and successful graphic novel "Blankets," Thompson's introductory insistence that "Carnet" is not his "next book," tries to disarm any critics, but he needn't have worried. Seemingly unedited, "Carnet" chronicles, in the form of an engrossing diary sketchbook, Thompson's European author tour, with a side trip to Morocco, during the spring of 2004. With all of its pages drawn from life, here at last...
Billy Wilder (The Apartment, Some Like It Hot) brings his considerable directorial panache to the Brattle’s continuation of the Film Noir 101 program. Indemnity is adapted by Wilder and master noir writer Raymond Chandler from James M. Cain’s novel. Barbara Stanwyck stars as the femme fatale (a staple of the entire series) who seduces a mild-mannered insurance salesman into murdering her husband for the insurance money. Men, be careful what dates you bring. They may learn something. Tickets $9. 7:15 p.m. The Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street...
...those who think that French people aren’t fans of freedom, this new film from notorious French auteur Catherine Breillat (Fat Girl, Romance) proves the French are at least big fans of sexual freedom. Brillat adapted from her own novel, Pornocratie, which begins with a random gay man stopping a random woman from slashing her wrists in a club bathroom. In return, she offers to pay him to watch her in her most private moments: she hopes he can began to understand her by watching “from the angle from which she should never be viewed...
...With all of these different backgrounds—math, medicine, genomics, physics—he’s come up with something novel...