Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well before the incoming Reaganauts decried the U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation Act, West European critics maintained that the law constituted a sledgehammer approach. They resented U.S. efforts to force them down the same road. As Bertrand Goldschmidt, a French physicist and former chairman of the I.A.E.A., puts it, "Applying nonproliferation measures is a delicate matter. It's like using drugs in medicine. If you are too strict, you can push countries into autarky...
Throughout, the procedure is subject to corruption, politics and lethargy. Says French Director Bertrand Tavernier: "In countries like the Philippines, Brazil, Chile, Poland and the U.S.S.R., no committee is going to nominate a film that threatens the status quo." Further, the Academy's one-film-per- country restriction penalizes nations with thriving film industries. U.S. Screenwriter David Newman (Bonnie and Clyde) asks, "Why can't Academy members vote for three French and two German films if they happen to be the best? Foreign films should be selected on the same basis as the others: quality." Tavernier blames the rule...
...SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY. A gentle old painter (Louis Ducreux) tries one summer Sunday to reconcile family responsibilities with a renewed passion for his art. In this hugely affecting miniature, Director Bertrand Tavernier illuminates the twilight of a man's life with the colors of compassion...
...SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY Directed by Bertrand Tavernier Screenplay by Colo Tavernier and Bertrand Tavernier...
Nothing much happens in this gentle, acute, hugely affecting film from French Director Bertrand Tavernier (The Clockmaker, Coup de Torchon). Monsieur wakes, engages in a mild battle of wills with his sere housekeeper, dresses for the arrival of his son Gonzague (Michel Aumont). Gonzague's stern wife (Genevieve Mnich) lectures Monsieur fondly on his latest painting-"Put a cat on the divan; a cat is always nice"-and Monsieur replies with a smile that might be a wince. His two grandsons make an ordinary nuisance of themselves. His granddaughter, the lovely Mireille (Katia Wostrikoff), watches today's dinner...