Word: swann
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pure altruism," German Director Volker Schlŏndorff (The Tin Drum), 44, agreed to "jump on the sinking vessel to try to save it." He focused on a single vignette from the book. English Actor Jeremy Irons, 35, and Italian Screen Siren Ornella Muti, 28, signed to play Swann and the courtesan he marries. The result, Un Amour de Swann (English version: Swann in Love), has opened in Paris, where it is a sensation, attracting intellectual controversy and long lines. Says Producer Stephane: "The miracle happened...
...landmark 1971 case, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court's authority to mandate school busing where government policy had been shown to create segregation. But in its friend-of-the-court brief, Reagan's Justice Department argued last week that lower courts have interpreted Swann too broadly and should be allowed to take into account the "educational, social and economic costs of busing." These "costs," at least as argued in the Nashville case, include "white flight" from the public school system...
Where the movie should have focused on the interplay of the 20th-century Swann and the 19th-century villagers, it remains fascinated by old-fashioned gunplay. Director William Dear seems to have decided that audiences would never be happy without a shoot-'em-up subplot. All the audience really wants, however, is to see Swann use a little modern-day unfortunately, the cowboy subplot wins out over any such...
...anything, Swann and his modern gadgetry seem impotent in the West. His motorcycle offers him no protection from the bandits' six-shooters, and Swann himself carries no modern firearms. Consequently, none of the other characters in the movie seems too impressed by him. Perhaps the weakness of the plot lies in the fact that it's a motorcyclist--rather than the commander of a tank or the pilot of an F-14--who is sent back in time. In the end of the movie a helicopter--sent by the research company to find Swann--is very nearly shot down...
There are some amusing moments, as when the head bandit (Peter Coyote) attempts to start the motorcycle by jumping up and down and kicking it, or when Swann--after initially arriving in the village--offers to reverse the charges if they will let him use their phone to call L.A. And there are some funny scenes between Swann and Claire, the love interest, played by Belinda Baucr. But we keep waiting for a scene which never comes in which everything will become clear in Swann and to the other characters. Swann never really explains to the other characters where...