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Mile. Helene (Stephane Audran) is the attractive schoolmistress in the placid provincial town. She befriends the local butcher Popaul (Jean Yanne) at a wedding feast and later presents him with a cigarette lighter. But their tranquil country life is disrupted by a taste of urban terror: a girl's body is found horribly mutilated. Soon another grisly murder is committed; this time Helene discovers the body while on a picnic with her students. Next to the body is a lighter that appears to be Popaul's. Helene finds herself I caught in a maelstrom of dark violence...
...always been an intoxicating experience for the artist. Tranquil and turbulent, uncontrollable and cruel, the ocean eludes him in a way that other scenes do not. Landscapes are firm and familiar; still lifes intimate. Portraits, by their very nature, are personal. But the seascape must represent the aloof and detached ocean, and it is this defiant refusal to bend to man's control that has driven painters to conquer the sea on canvas. In a refreshing summertime exhibit, the Newark Museum has mounted two dozen marine paintings that show the various ways in which 19th century artists sensed...
...never followed the "new politicians" to the brink of social challenge only to have them retreat in the face of party pressure. And we never spent years in the Peace Corps helplessly watching people starve to death in third world cities, our hands tied by a bureaucracy that wanted tranquil, innocuous show-cases of American benevolence...
...mingling colors and sensuous personal relationships of Les Biches give it a deceptively tranquil mood. Beneath its apparent softness lie a morality and visual style of steel. The fundamental principle of Chabrol's view of the world is the inevitability of change in the ordering of relationships. In his films the positions of objects in space are altered, often via camera motions, over time. Chabrol carefully organizes other types of change-the evolution of personal relationships being the most explicit-around this basic kind...
...African, and the language is related to Javanese dialects. Much of the plant and animal life is unique to the island area; lemurs and about one-half of the 800 local varieties of butterflies exist wild nowhere else. The pace of life is slow, but in recent weeks the tranquil island has come alive-largely because of some unwonted political stirrings...