It was the great French nouvelle vague actor Jean-Paul Belmondo. Jean-Paul Belmondo
Its chief asset is the young Anny Duperey, one of the most beautiful women in French films (Jean-Luc Godard's "Two or Three Things I Know about Her," Alain Resnais's "Stavisky"), who here plays a newlywed disfigured in a fire; her husband (Philippe Lemaire), an artist of great reputation and vague accomplishments, enlists the help of a mad plastic surgeon to put her back together again.
Rupert Everett just looks great -- petulant, vaguely upper-crust and almost adolescent (he was 26 at the time) -- as David Blakely, her violent, impulsive young lover.
His recommendations are somewhat vague; greater detail should be available in the book Mr Porter recently co-authored with Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, an excerpt from which is available here.Also worth reading is an interview with Robert Austin, a professor of technology, operations and management who recently co-authored a paper on "accidental innovation".
Useful because a) it's great b) has vaguely Big Ben-ish bells on it, but also because playing it marks the inexorable passing of time: watch ex-ravers of a certain age "have it large" before sheepishly heading home at 1am to relieve the babysitter.
Chabrol is survived by a rapidly diminishing cohort of Nouvelle Vague greats, foremost among them Jean-Luc Godard, the 79-year-old Breathless director currently keeping Hollywood on tenterhooks as to whether or not he will show up to collect an honorary Oscar this year.
Thus, the conservatives wind up wielding greater power, lacking only vague cultural influence.
I probably said, "neat," or "great," or something else vaguely affirming.
And so were the other men who were to become the great directors of the nouvelle vague (Rivette, Rohmer, Truffaut).
You delineate Nuri's emotional frame of mind with great precision, yet are deliberately vague about the political contours of his world.
And the most important theoretician of the Nouvelle Vague was the great critic André Bazin, a co-founder of Cahiers du cinéma and the dedicatee of Les quatre cents coups Bazin's two heroes were Robert Bresson and Roberto Rossellini.
