Word: berries
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...comparable amount. The increase, Libya's second in a month, was promptly followed by a rise by Iraq as well. Even Saudi Arabia, which is generally regarded as a pricing moderate in the cartel, tacked a $1.40-per-bbl. increase onto its top-of-the-line "berri" light crude. Late in the week, Iran started the whole destructive process all over again by jumping up its prices another...
...FIRST TIME Directed and Written by Claude Berri...
Though nonsense of this kind is timeless, the farce is set in Paris in 1952, and it is clear that Director Claude Berri regards The First Time, like his earlier films The Two of Us and Marry Me, Marry Me, as a roguish memoir. The mighty engines of nostalgia come into play as male viewers in their 40s, harassed by their own teen-age children and the spores of mid-life fungus, look backward with Berri. It is a rueful pleasure to watch Claude and his randy school friends stumble rubber-kneed after anything in skirts. The viewer smiles...
...Harvard Square are two of the finest examples of a great genre--the French domestic comedy of the middle class: Louis Malle's Murmur of the Heart are Claude Berri's Le Sex Shop. Both are the kind of whimsy that'll have you grinning idiotically when you leave, and Malle's, about an incestual mother/son relationship, has great sensitivity as well...
This film maker's isolation is some thing Truffaut carries over into his personal life as well. A slight, intense, diffident man, Truffaut lives in a modest rented apartment in the center of Paris. When he sees friends-like Fellow Film Makers Jacques Rivette or Claude Berri-he sees them at home over a quiet dinner. Divorced from his wife, he has been seen in company with Catherine Deneuve and, most recently, Jacqueline Bisset. "It is apparent from his films that he considers women an important part of his life," says an acquaintance. "But he is so terribly discreet...