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...Antoine (Jean Rochefort) meets Mathilde (Anna Galiena), "the woman with whom I knew I'd spend my life." Mathilde knows it too; in his Basset eyes she sees erotic ingenuity and unconditional love. Both are avid for the moment the shop door closes "so we can drown in the ocean of peace we love so much." French director Patrice Leconte, whose fine Monsieur Hire also dealt with romantic obsession, has devised a chamber fable about a man's infantile charm and a woman's nurturing sexuality. The movie is like the couple's love: pure, brief, passionate, heartbreaking...
Still, there is no reason to transfer to UC-Santa Cruz. From the West Coaster homesick for salty ocean spray to the land-locked Midlander who wants to discover the wonders of the sea, this area has something to offer anyone who wants to go wading in something other than a plastic baby pool...
...hard to believe, but the same public transportation that goes to Filene's Basement will also magically transport people to the Atlantic Ocean. So one doesn't have to travel to the ends of the earth to find a large body of water--just to the ends of the ends of the red and blue lines of the MBTA system...
Revere Beach, on the other side of Boston, is nearly at the end of the T's blue line, right before the Wonderland racetrack stop. Revere tries harder to be a bona fide beach. The sand is whiter, the beach stretches further, and the ocean stretches outward...
...Love Is Gone limns a broken triangle in words as simple as heartbreak: "She was angry/ He was free/ She loved him/ Then she left me." In She's Already Made Up Her Mind, a bereft man needs a friend to "sail with me out to that ocean deep/ And let me go easy down over the side/ And remember me to her." Suicide: that'll show...