Word: vied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appointments foi $3,000 apiece. One Premier of the Third Republic, Pierre-Maurice Rou-vier, casually made his mistress' husband a Legionnaire because "of the special services rendered to me by his wife." Once when he was having bad luck fishing, legend has it, Author Henri Murger (La Vie de Boheme) baited his hook with his scarlet ribbon and said: "Now they are sure to bite. This is something everyone likes...
...life to Live comes as close to translating the French titleSa Vie Vivre as it does to presenting a convincing character--not quite close enough. Director Jean-Luc Godord (Breathless) casts his wife, Anna Karina, in a difficult rile. She must persuade us that although she leaves her husband and child to become a prostitute, she is irreproachable. No matter what she does, the movie implies that, like Suzie Wong and Irma La Douce she remains somehow pure...
...compare Sa Vie Vivre with Suzie and Irma is of course heresy: the American films are in middle-brow technicolor while Godard's is in avant-garde black and white. Their endings reflect this difference: while Suzie and Irma live happily ever after, Nana dies...
...Vie de la Soir...
Director Alexander Astruc and screenplay writer Roland Laudenbach take great care to preserve in End of Desire the mood of Guy de Maupassant's Une Vie. They translate novel into movie with a confident, graceful fluency. The picture does not show the strain to telescoping and rearranging that often ruins adaptations; End of Desire seems like a filmed transliteration of the original story. In Maria Schell's dolorous eyes, Maupassant's anguish over undeserved suffering arrives on the screen intact...