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...actresses occupy a middle-class middle ground where emotions are rarely italicized. If moviegoers are to be touched, they must do half the work, trolling for subtext, reading a heartbreak into a pensive glance. That ability to conspire with the filmmakers is especially important when viewing Beart in Claude Sautet's Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud, winner of the Cesar for the year's best French film...
DIRECTOR: CLAUDE SAUTET...
...chatty U.S. criterion, Un Coeur en Hiver (A Heart in Winter) is no great shakes. Even by French standards, Claude Sautet's drama tends to dither a bit. Yet the film displays a wonderful attention to the spaces between what people say and what they mean. Because the business of its main characters is making music, we spend many rewarding moments watching people listen. And then, because this is a kind of love story, we watch a woman watching a man. Here, the actors are the audience; they do what...
...SIMPLE STORY Directed by Claude Sautet Screenplay by Claude Sautet and Jean-Loup Dabadie
...boring failure. It ends with her carrying to term a child she has conceived with her former husband, who is not boring and is successful. Just why she left him in the first place, or took up with the replacement she now finds odious, is left unclear. Instead, Director Sautet cuts away to subplots involving the heroine's wide circle of female friends. The point seems to be that men are not much good and that a woman is likely to find greater happiness, or anyway serenity, with her own kind. Still, everyone, male and female, is presented...