Word: yves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Haute couture is opera. It is dreams and phantoms and magic," says Yves Saint Laurent, the Sun King of fashion. So it was last week at the showings of the French couture collections for autumn: high fashion had indeed become pure theater. Vanished was the sleek, pantsuited look that Saint Laurent himself once institutionalized, and his revolutionary peasant look of last year was transmuted into costumes more sumptuous, more fantastical, more opulent -and more expensive (typically $3,000 to $10,000 per outfit)-than ever before. Romanticism-from Saint Laurent's Oriental visions to Marc Bohan...
...Deneuve tries to keep her stolen painting afloat while swimming to shore from a sinking ship, but not nearly as funny as it was when Katherine Hepburn wrestled with her little leopard in Bringing Up Baby. The red gas stove is certainly milked for all its comic absurdity, yet Yves Montand cannot do with it half of what Buster Keaton did with a simple pair of bicycle handlebars in Sherlock Jr. Director Jean Paul Rappeneau seems to understand the basic atmospheric conditions of screwball humor, but he fails to enliven his combination of characters and incidents with any modern twists...
...YVES MONTAND, with his unshaven face and smiling eyes, making a boat motor in the garage or a classic French dinner in the red gas oven, seems remarkably at home in his role. But Deneuve cannot deliver a line or wrinkle up her face in an expression without looking like a spoilt child who can't take no for an answer. The problem lies not so much in her acting ability as it does in the part of Nelly itself...
Directed by YVES ROBERT Screenplay by JEAN-LOUP DABADIE...
LOVERS LIKE US brings together Yves Montand, as a brilliant perfumery chemist playing hooky on a Venezuelan island, and Catherine Deneuve, as an ex-nightclub hostess on the lam with a stolen Toulouse-Lautrec. She nearly gets the chemist killed in a highway chase, invades his island and sinks his boat, so naturally he falls in love with her. He locks her out of his house, tries to deport her bodily and finally knocks her out with a pineapple, so naturally she falls in love with him. All this, in the right hands, could make a diverting screwball comedy. These...