Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a basic dilemma. A nation of immigrants is reluctant to reject other immigrants, particularly those who want to get ahead in the best American tradition. Few come for a handout; they are anxious to make a living. An illegal alien who is currently employed as an industrial painter in Brooklyn used to live on a South Pacific island where he dreamed of the American paradise of hard work. "It is the obsession of every islander," he says, "to come and be rewarded for what he does"-a dream shared round the world...
...Lynch describes himself as a landscape painter. In a statement prepared by the gallery, Lynch says he is "changing images offered up to me by the American public into figures as landscape, landscape as figures, clothing as landscapes...
...around. They had the male hostages clean up the toilets. There was one girl who wet her pants. The gunmen told a B'nai B'rith man to clean the floor, and they had the girl take off her wet slacks and put on a pair of painter's overalls...
Pont-Aven, the setting for much of this loosely structured, deliberately vulgar French comedy, is the seacoast town where Paul Gauguin settled temporarily after abandoning his job and family in the 1880s. The hero of The Cookies is a present-day painter who also throws over a boring wife and job and moves to Pont-Aven. One major difference between the two men, however, is that Gauguin became in his rebellion a leading light of the French avantgarde. The hero of Cookies, both as a man and a painter, is largely obsessed with female buttocks. He is an artist...
Considering the kind of crude, exuberant fun that might have been had from such a subject, Cookies, when it isn't forced, is curiously listless. Jean-Pierre Marielle plays the painter well. A few scenes come briefly to life: the manageress of an umbrella shop coyly allowing herself to be seduced; the repressed sister of a Bible salesman peeping at the visiting painter as he undresses for the night; a prostitute, before taking on a customer, matter-of-factly washing his genitals in the sink along with the dishes. But Joel Seria is the kind of literal-minded director...