Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS Directed and Written by Bertrand Blier...
...Bertrand Blier, 39, is best known for Going Places, a fiercely scatological comedy that was widely and unjustly reviled as misogynistic when it appeared in 1974. Handkerchiefs may provoke a similar response from literal-minded viewers. Like Going Places, it focuses on two libidinous buddies (again played by Gérard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere) who will try anything to satisfy the seemingly frigid woman (Carol Laure) they crave. Since the doe-eyed heroine, Solange, appears to be a mindless sex object and the heroes are winning rakes, Blier all but invites condemnation as a sexist. But this film maker...
...Your Handkerchiefs. French Director Bertrand Blier (Going Places) pushes sexual fantasy well past the breaking point to create a lyrical, affecting vision of an assortment of relationships, marital and otherwise...
...philosophy that sustains the creatures throughout is mildly liberal and humane (somewhere between Bertrand Russell and Hubert Humphrey), and there are moments when one feels that perhaps the whole thing is just another cleverly put ecological tract. What sustains the viewer, however, besides the sound plotting, is the stylishness of the piece. Except for an unfortunate arty prologue with featureless backgrounds and stylized bunnies, Watership Down is made in the classic manner of the old, excellent Disney films. The background painting is rich and highly detailed, and this allows the multiplane camera to exploit its ability to create the illusion...
Katharine Tait, the late Bertrand Russell's daughter, denying that her father was a feminist although he talked like one: "He had four wives, and each one was just his wife and had no other career than being his wife. That in itself tells...