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'Sex and Lucia'
Times Staff WriterIf you're over the age of consent, you know that common sense and sexual passion don't often exist in the same time and space. That point is lustily demonstrated by "Sex and Lucia," one very steamy, very incoherent motion picture. The kind of trifle that...Tags: Academy Awards, Paz Vega, Entertainment, Elena Anaya, Movies
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Beaumarchais, the Scoundrel
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday October 24, 1997 "Beaumarchais, the Scoundrel" is a glorious, giddy account of a tumultuous 11 years--1773 to 1784--in the life of the great French playwright. The author of "The Barber of Seville" and "The Marriage of Figaro" led an...Tags: Crimes, England, Mirrors (movie), France, Revolutions
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Mondo
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday June 27, 1997 Tony Gatlif's "Mondo" is even more magical than "Latchmo Drom," his mesmerizing celebration of Gypsy music and culture retracing the migration of the Rom people from India to Europe 1,000 years ago. Instead of finding...Tags: Rudolph Valentino, Crimes, Bank Robbery, Murder, Chin
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For Ever Mozart
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday September 26, 1997 What a smart move the Nuart has made in presenting each night a different major Jean-Luc Godard film as a second feature to his latest, "For Ever Mozart," which opens a one-week run today. That's because "For Ever Mozart"--...Tags: James Mitchell, Fritz Lang, Relentless7 (music group), France, Comedy (genre)
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Capitaine Conan
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday October 10, 1997 Bertrand Tavernier's superb "Capitaine Conan" takes us into the Balkans as World War I ends for a subtle and resonant study of friendship, politics and class differences as the men who helped win the war for France are...Tags: Bulgaria, Cinema Industry, France, Sofia (Bulgaria), Tommy Lee Jones
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'Our Lady of the Assassins'
Times Staff WriterWith "Our Lady of the Assassins," director Barbet Schroeder has returned to the city of his youth, where at age 7 he witnessed an all-too-prophetic beheading in the streets during a period of political turmoil in 1948. Like Schroeder, the film's hero,...Tags: Barbet Schroeder, Crimes, Academy Awards, Los Angeles, Santa Monica
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'Chaos'
Times Staff WriterA pair of deftly staged identical incidents prove pivotal in Coline Serreau's audacious and original "Chaos," which mixes satire and suspense in unexpected ways in a film that is as darkly amusing as it is bitterly critical of bourgeois society's...Tags: Comedy (genre), Satire (genre), Celebrities, Entertainment, Cinema Industry
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'Carnage'
Times Staff WriterWith "Carnage," a pungent tale of love and sacrifice, French filmmaker Delphine Gleize has fashioned a modest epic about our ridiculous human comedy. A melancholic satire in which laughter mingles with tears, the film begins on a biblical note with the...Tags: Comedy (genre), Entertainment, France, Spain, Hospitals and Clinics
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'To Be and to Have'
Times Staff WriterMovie lovers weary of the blood and violence currently washing over our screens will find sweet relief in Nicolas Philibert's documentary "To Be and to Have." For his portrait of a small schoolhouse in rural France, the filmmaker has made an up-close...Tags: Entertainment, France, Cinema Industry, Children, Movies
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Un Air de Famille
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday June 19, 1998 "Ah, Monsieur Rabelais," an admirer said to the 16th century French writer in a memorable New Yorker cartoon, "there is simply no word to describe your lusty, bawdy sense of humor." Similarly, there is no one word (and...Tags: Gaming, Entertainment, France, Cinema Industry, Family
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Marius and Jeannette
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday June 19, 1998 The warm embrace of Marcel Pagnol hovers over Robert Guediguian's irresistible "Marius and Jeannette." It can't be an accident that one of the films in Pagnol's classic Marseilles trilogy of the '30s is called "Marius." In...Tags: Comedy (genre), Academy Awards, Entertainment, France, Movies
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Western
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday August 14, 1998 The title of Manuel Poirier's warm and glowing "Western" has nothing to do with the American frontier but refers instead to the ruggedly beautiful west coast of Brittany. What's more, the terrain it covers is not geographic...Tags: Comedy (genre), Entertainment, Movies
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