Word: pere
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nicolson fils and pere, driving in separate cars across the U.S. in 1986, are not exactly typical tourists. Nigel is a historian, gentleman politician and professional amateur whose most celebrated book, Portrait of a Marriage, describes the unlikely partnership of his homosexual parents Vita Sackville- West and Harold Nicolson. Adam is a naturalist ready to take over the family business of belles lettres. On their American tours, Adam, 29, relentlessly covers the West, stopping in on rallies in Berkeley, hanging out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas and tramping through the rain forests of Washington. Meanwhile...
Bertrand Blier (Going Places, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, Beau Pere) revels in treating romantic obsession as a frolic to the death. Recklessly assured, Blier keeps escalating the stakes here until comedy becomes love story becomes tragedy becomes megafarce. After an hour or so, Menage explodes from the exhaustion of possibilities, and the cast is left to pick up the pieces. They do so, handsomely, while the sardonic writer-director surveys the carnage with what he calls "my big shotgun smile." You can see bits of flesh in his teeth...
...more than a scenario, and L'Amour has not simply traded Remingtons for rockets: his - knowledge of the frozen North is well researched, his KGB men have enough dimension to throw a long shadow, and along the trek he even mentions straight shooters like Ivan Karamazov and Balzac's Pere Goriot. Those were mighty rare figures on the old prairie; the garrulous storyteller is not only moving on, he is trading...
...girl (Isabelle Huppert). "Oh, I've had lots of practice," she shrugs. "I was lucky to start very young." When Writer-Director Bertrand Blier turns his attention to the precocious young (a 13-year-old genius in Get Out Your Handkerchiefs; a budding stepdaughter in Beau-Pere) he creates sexual fables poised on the brink of moral anarchy. No such luck in My Best Friend's Girl (La Femme de Mon Pole), an "adult" triangle about a sad-sack disc jockey and a tall, dark and blandsome shop owner both in love with a woman Unworthy of Their...
...Gould] has been a well known scientist for over 10 years," says Assistant Professor of Biology Pere I. Alberch, adding that the media have been slow to catch...