Word: oeil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real star of Cat and Mouse, though, is Lelouch. He has taken a vi brant hand to his material, lacing the action with playful flashbacks and trompe l'oeil effects that wittily complicate the narrative's central puzzle. There is even a brief and hilariously titled film-within-the-film that parodies Cat and Mouse's own detective genre. If, in the end, the movie is far longer on charm than thrills, it is simply because the director refuses to hype any of the scary elements of the story. Much to his credit, Claude Lelouch would rather...
...Playful physics" was the way René Magritte somewhat disdainfully characterized the trompe 1'oeil style of painting. But the term could apply to his own oblique surrealism. Rings plunging through pianos, airborne castles, flaming keys and animated bottles are all part of the artist's whimsical, gravity-free universe. Magritte: Ideas and Images by Harry Torczyner (Abrams; 277 pages; $45) provides an opulent but ambiguous visual festival. The artist, half magician, half charlatan, paints with paperback Freud insights and melodramatic compositions so calculating that he sometimes makes Norman Rockwell appear primitive. Yet in the midst...
Give them credit. By deciding to celebrate legs or bury them, to glorify bosoms or flatten them, by floating women's bodies in capes and drapes, shawls, cloaks, trains, panels, hoods, furbelows and twiddlybits, the great fashion houses emerge, year after year, as masters of trompe l'oeil. Otherwise, monitoring these collections would be like sitting through Aida for the 42nd time. As Mrs. Pierre Schlumberger, of the French oil-rich, noted before seeing the Saint Laurent collection in the laurel-bedecked ballroom of the Crillon, "We can't really expect them to keep coming up with...
...artistic realism embodied-as it were-in the Body Language series is part of a proud trompe l'oeil T shirt tradition that is already months old. Some samples, now on the streets and in fashionable discothèques: a shirt that looks like a tuxedo jacket, shirt and bow tie -complete with a flower in the lapel; another that is indistinguishable from a sailor suit; and one, owned by San Francisco TV Reporter Bill Schechner, that is apparently a green sports shirt and blue tie looped in a Windsor knot. "I wear it on the air when...
...story. Yet Barry Lyndon lacks the experimental, hallucinatory visual quality that made 2001 a cultural touchstone of the tripped-out '60s. Kubrick has shot and edited Barry Lyndon with the classic economy and elegance associated with the best works of the silent cinema. The frantic trompe 1'oeil manner -all quick cuts and crazy angles-recently favored by ambitious film makers (and audiences) has been rigorously rejected...