Some are tiny, exquisite inventions, such as the lovely sad canzonetta Lulu sings over the body of her husband in the first scene.
(Ms. Baer's bleat may be unforgettable, but she's a seriously good singer too.) Ms. Warren, who has the most sympathetic role, as the soggy-hearted Daisy, performs a period pop pastiche number, "I'd Rather Watch You," with a lovely, sad grace.
It is lovely and sad enough to soften the heart of any lover of Paris, and oddly premonitory of the city views that Shore later did alone, in the same key but on a very different instrument.
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The loveliest and saddest shot of all is the closeup of Elise's face, her red lips parted in rapture as she catches her first sight of Didier and the gang onstage.
And even when the rhythm gets funky, the sad, lovely songs — about a crumbling romance — are suffused with a yearning that's almost too intimate.
This occurred a few weeks ago at the Harvey Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where a sad, lovely fable of a play called "The Suit," from the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, was in residence.
The sad, lovely poem that gives his award-winning collection its name is about his father, a shambling and inexpert businessman who several times bankrupted the family when Schultz was young.
"Violette Nozière will remain in our memories a sad and lovely ode to perversity," said a writer in Paris-Midi.
