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...LeFranc. Her representation of his desires and fears provides the primary intrigue for the play, and it is through her LeFranc that the play progresses. LeFranc's conflicting desire and contempt for Maurice culminate in the climactic scene which ingeniously blurs the lines between sexual and physical violence. This radiant scene captures in a few moments the entirety of Genet's homoerotic turbulence and brings the play to its decisive conclusion...
...success of "A Tale of Springtime" rests squarely on the actors' shoulders. Teyssedre deliver, the best performance in the movie, evolving from the sober young teacher of the beginning to a mature and self possessed woman. Teyssedre makes Jeanne an intensely likable creation and provides the film with its radiant core. Beautiful and petulant, Darrell gives a splendid performance as Natacha, a confused and complex eighteen year-old wavering between adolescence and adulthood...
Their hesitant courtship becomes an exquisite pas de deux between Josette Day and Jean Marais. Cocteau was blessed to have two such accomplished actors playing the lead roles. Day, with her delicate cheekbones and tremulous lovliness, is radiant; the other-wordly image of Beauty in a dark cloak stays in one's memory for days. Marais is triumphant as the Beast. In Berard's makeup and ornate costumes, he displays a flair not present in any of his other performances. He looks at once noble and ridiculous, menacing and silly, and his resonant, incantatory voice is unforgettable...
Patricia (radiant Frances Conroy) seems more manic than depressive today. She has gone without her medication for three weeks, and is ready, maybe, to go home to her husband Leroy (stalwart John Heard) and their seven kids. Patricia wants Leroy, a carpenter who is descended from Alexander Hamilton, to be more successful and less complacent. And she seeks release from the ghosts of her golden youth. But wry or wistful, she speaks with the reckless lucidity of someone liberated from drugs and intoxicated by the impending peril of real life. "Sooner or later you just have to stand...
...glows. Timex introduced a dial that lights up in a commercial so droll that some Saturday Night Live viewers took it for an SNL send-up. Sinatra croons "Strangers in the night . . ." as a smitten firefly hovers over the sparkling watch. Smack! A huge hand suddenly swats at the radiant suitor but misses him, hitting the watch. The disconsolate firefly takes off. The object of his affections "takes a licking and keeps on ticking...