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Inspired by the seductive majesty of a coiffeuse's half-exposed breast, 12- year-old Antoine discovers his vocation: he will become THE HAIRDRESSER'S HUSBAND. Decades later, in another barber chair, Antoine (Jean Rochefort) meets Mathilde (Anna Galiena), "the woman with whom I knew I'd spend my life." Mathilde knows it too; in his Basset eyes she sees erotic ingenuity and unconditional love. Both are avid for the moment the shop door closes "so we can drown in the ocean of peace we love so much." French director Patrice Leconte, whose fine Monsieur Hire also dealt with romantic...
...Nimitz still had Lieut. Commander Joseph Rochefort's code-breaking team in Pearl Harbor, which told him that Midway was Yamamoto's main target, that there would be a secondary attack against the Aleutians, and that the strike at Midway was set for June 4. Now the fates that had condemned the U.S. to blind complacency at Pearl Harbor visited the same punishment on Japan. Declared Nagumo as he neared his launching point: "The enemy is not aware of our plans...
Louise (Simone Signoret) is one of those women. She and her crippled brother Gilles (Jean Rochefort) seem resigned to live out their days exchanging good-natured insults. Louise keeps house and her own counsel; the defiantly cheerful Gilles looks at life from a wheelchair, through a telescope lens. But there is untapped love in them both, and a desperate resolve. Louise places a personal notice in the local paper, asking to meet a "refined gentleman." To her shock and chagrin, the one respondent is Gilles. "My legs are paralyzed," he declares in his first letter, "but my heart is free...
...Jean Rochefort has heretofore put his sheepish grin and Slinky-like gait into the service of boulevard comedy. Here he is both more powerful and more discreet, signaling the film's shifting moods with each new spasm of Gilles's anticipation and anguish. Delphine Seyrig, who plays his neighbor, the lovely, slow-witted Yvette, was once the very model of Marienbad chic. It is a pleasure to see those enigmatic eyes widen in what Yvette means to convey as delight, to see her smile squirm at Gilles's gentle ribaldry...
...Simone Signoret (best known recently for Madame Rosa); this is the story of an aging spinster who lives with, and cares for, her wheelchair-bound brother, Gilles. Grouchy, though affectionate toward each other, their life seems as cold and sterile as the craggy Brittany coastline that Gilles (Jean Rochefort) perpetually watches through his telescope...