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Word: wilhelmenia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hood, sunglasses-is too outré to keep it from reflecting a passerby's face. No character is too quirky to escape shoehorning into the film's delirious narrative. Jules (Frédéric Andrei) is a postal messenger in love with an opera star (Wilhelmenia Fernandez)-a diva so protective of her gift that she refuses to record even her greatest triumphs. Jules will have none of this: he must live with his obsession, so he surreptitiously tapes one of her performances. But it is another recording-a prostitute's taped confession implicating several powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Flair Ball | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

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