Word: luchini
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...Fabrice Luchini arrives fashionably late for our lunch date at the Ritz bar. He is wearing a black sweatshirt, black trousers and a 24-hour stubble - a little touch of bohemian chic that stands out smartly among the designer suits and Hermès scarves...
...Typical. Luchini always seems like the odd man out - the box office success who prefers 400-seat theaters to megabudget films, the high-school dropout who knows all the great French literary classics by heart, the 21st-century movie star whose greatest passion is reciting the works of long-dead writers. If Gérard Depardieu is France's best-known actor today, Luchini is perhaps the most interesting...
...latest movie, "Barnie et ses Petites Contrariétés," currently number five on the French hit parade, is a hilarious farce about a mild-mannered boat designer caught in the crossfire between his wife, his girlfriend - and his boyfriend. But if films pay the bulk of Luchini's bills these days, he makes no secret about preferring the boards to celluloid. Balding, short of stature and, lately, getting a little paunchy around the waist, Luchini is nobody's idea of a classic matinee idol. But he has something almost no other actor possesses these days: a flawless elocution...
...premise is almost high concept. A young writer (Fabrice Luchini) has just been jilted. A friend proposes that, as a delicious act of revenge on all women, the fellow should choose a prospect (Judith Henry), seduce her, then leave her and write a best seller about his experience. But Christian Vincent's LA DISCRETE is no frivolous American sex comedy; it is French, in the best sense of the word. With breathless poise, the script by Vincent and Jean-Pierre Ronssin juggles cruelty and gaiety, revealing modern man as a ruthless appraiser auditioning women for his imaginary harem. Hollywood wouldn...
Rohmer's telling of the story is highly stylized. The actors speak in rhyming verse, and much of the narrative is provided by a chorus, playing medieval instruments. Luchini is more a suggestion of a knight than a knight himself. With a receding chin, concave chest, and dangling, half-open mouth, he looks as if he would be afraid to kill a mouse with a trap, much less joust with a man in armor. The sets are also symbolic, rather than realistic-sculptured trees, cardboard castles, painted skies-and they have the strange beauty of a Dali painting...