Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rules of the Game. A good case could be made for this film as the best comedy ever made. It is certainly Renoir's best film. Renoir's work generally involves a search for a community to identify with in French society, whether aristocracy, bourgeoisie, peasantry or working class. This...
The Longed-For Tempests, which chronicles Chateaubriand's first 25 years, begins with his birth during a violent storm at St.-Malo, a granite fortress of a town on the coast of Brittany. At Combourg, the family's gloomy, turreted castle, Chateaubriand grew into moody adolescence, given to...
Early in the story, before Narrator Koerner has found his voice, there are a few sentences a bit too mannered and elliptical. "Some of them a sensible man would have paused with, perhaps found whatever it was he thought he was looking for," writes Schickel of Koerner's women...
Raised conventionally enough in Brooklyn and Long Island, Reed endured the usual humiliations of adolescence (recalled in a lovely, almost sentimental song called Coney Island Baby) before setting out for Syracuse. After that came a flight into the nether regions of the New York pop life. He soon settled down...
This private truth has made Greenfeld more sensitive to our common human feelings than most American men would choose to be. In spite of this his diary is never sentimental, self-pitying or gratuitously bitter. His anger at medical and educational bureaucracies, even at a fate that has dealt him...