Word: signoret
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...shapes and silhouettes are all maybe signs of a graphic protection linked unconsciously to recession, just like at the end of the '80s." Like Lacroix, Ghesquière was channeling a more austere sensibility in his Balenciaga collection, which, he said, was inspired by film noir, specifically the actress Simone Signoret's hard-edged look in the 1955 movie Les Diaboliques...
...They include a couple of formerly well-known French actors (Simone Signoret and Jean-Pierre Cassel), but mostly they have creased, worn, knowing anonymous faces that, to this day, one sees going in and out of the corner tabacs all over France. Melville never comments on the absurd distance between the risks this group runs and the apparent paucity of the results they achieve. Melville has said that at the time his picture covers (1942-43) the underground had only 600 members (more joined later) so there wasn?t much they could do but try to save their own skins...
...film," recalls Yves Montand, "but I was on tour at the time. When you play on stage you feel, I wouldn't say young, but good, and to suddenly age for a role. At first I said no." Simone, of course, is his late wife Simone Signoret. The film is Jean De Florette, based on the story by Marcel Pagnol and completed on location in southern France three months after Signoret's death in September. Montand, 64, agreed to do the part only after donning the mustache of his character, the mean-spirited neighbor, César Soubeyran...