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Once it's in the can, as they say, the image isn't yet perfect. In search of the right one, art directors and photographers will click through thousands of digital versions. Retouchers like Pascal Dangin will artfully erase, pixel by pixel, the circles under the eyes of a cover model who has just traveled to London and back in 48 hours. The camera exacts its price. On the following pages, TIME draws back the curtain and looks at 10 top imagemakers and how they influence the fashions we see and buy and wear in the ever returning hope that...
...fatalities - between 30% and 50% - came from France's 10,000 rest homes. The homes, once models of good care, have suffered from underfunding and a shortage of employees. Homes in nations like Germany and Switzerland have staffs twice to three times the size of those in France, says Pascal Champvert, president of an association of French retirement-home directors. "I definitely have enough work for an expanded staff, but I can't fill positions," says Catherine Johanet, director of Sainte-Agnès. "Working with the elderly is scorned professionally and culturally." Elderly people in southern Europe - including...
...sunny afternoon in Paris' Latin Quarter, Jean-Pascal Croux stands on the sidewalk outside the Cinoches Cinemas, a modest movie house with a run-down box office and two small theaters that open directly onto the sidewalk. He's one of a dozen moviegoers waiting to see In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai's lush tale about two people who suspect their spouses of adultery. Produced in Hong Kong and released three years ago, the movie is one of 13 playing on the theater's two screens. "I've heard it's visually beautiful," says Croux...
...Champo hosts all-nighter festivals that begin at midnight and conclude with a light breakfast. Even so, it seems like the saga of the independent art houses may be on its last reel. The survival of revival cinemas ultimately depends on the dedication of film lovers like Jean-Pascal Croux. "These kinds of movie theaters are irreplaceable," he says. Too few Parisians appear to agree
...sequence—a synchronized, expressionistic movement sequence set to the Lachrymose of Mozart’s Requiem—should serve as the culmination of the characters’ personal exploration but instead deteriorates into a stagy and contrived presentation. The finale begs the question as to why Pascal felt the need to aestheticize the organic elements of the drama and to use a grandiose, classical score to drill in the point of an already self-evident tragedy...