Word: saint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...include those searching and mourning for their loved ones. At the end, Noiret sends a poignant love letter to Azema; the experience has made them a couple, perfectly matched but sadly unfulfilled. Tavernier, an ebullient bear of a man, is very much in the spirit of France's patron-saint director, Jean Renoir. In this monumental meditation on love in a time of war, Tavernier has made his own Rules of the Game...
...Raimi isn't effective with his actors, and the dialogue lacks smart menace, but his canny visual sense carries many a scene. And he knows how to give resonance to a tinny plot: by portraying a character so powerful and warped that he is urban America's perfect patron saint...
...hand and a cigarette dangling from his lips. "Shall we start with the frustrating part or the even more frustrating part just ahead of it?" he asks his eight dancers, speaking of a passage in a rather classical-looking piece he is setting to a showy swatch of Saint-Saens. When people start tiring, he is reluctant to lose momentum, but when he offers a choice of beverages or minuets in mock airline- ese, the choice is soft drinks. The ensemble work looks odd at first because Morris rarely distinguishes between men and women. Boy may lift girl, or another...
...know if there was any way he could be of assistance. She said that as a matter of fact, there was one thing he might do. It would be helpful at the hospice to have a reserved parking spot. So envision this scene: here is Mother Teresa, perhaps a saint, making a sick call on a man who has just had a stroke -- and she's trying to hustle him for a parking spot. You've got to say it's a tough town...
...cruel," says Pierre Saint-Amand from Haiti, a professor in the French department...