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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHAT LUST? WHAT LIFE? NOT FOR MAUrice Pialat the gorgeously gaudy tones in which Hollywood paints the fine artist. The French writer-director's VAN GOGH is a portrait -- almost a still life -- of a somber fellow who is too busy creating masterpieces in the final months of his life to have time for melodramatic effects like lopping off his ear. In such films as Loulou and A Nos Amours, Pialat has sullenly railed against the strictures of French bourgeois life. In Van Gogh, he has found a kindred spirit; for both, artistic compromise is a crime against humanity. Jacques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Nov. 23, 1992 | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

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