Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 30, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press May 1978 2136 for people Cannes festival shows new strength year of women hailed in movies by Charles Champlin the los Angeles times prance the inter National festival of film is usually far too varied on screen and off to be summed up and remembered for anything less than a near revolution or the smashing arrival of the new even now it is probably too Early to be quite sure about this 3lst annual gathering Here beside the yet Halfway through this seems very much like the year of the not women As objects and although they Are a persisting Pursuit of the festival press after All these but this festival has so far been most impressive in its films about including one that is a first feature by a three of the american Paul Mazursky an unmarried with Jill Clayburgh readjusting to the single state Louis Malles pretty with Brooke Shields As a 12yearold prostitute in 1917 new and Jane Fonda in Hal Ashby coming Home have helped in their diver gent ways to establish the concern with another american Claudia weills girl which is not in the competitive festival but in the prestigious directors fort or quintaine Des Realise has had a stunning who was co director and cinematographer on Shirley Maclaine China began the film As a Short on an american film Institute Grant but was Able to find additional fund including some tax shelter to extend it to feature she has now sold it to Warner for worldwide Dis by a Nice irony recoup ing everyone investment except her Melanie who was in Harry and car Wash the cashier and most recently in you Light up my is a Young and serious photographer sharing a Manhattan apartment with a Young and serious writer Anita who splits for the Security of the documentary like in its capturing of the single apart the single life and the City at its least is often very funny because of the girls Quick minds and self deprecating but it is More than funny and is with a seeming casualness that conceals a ruthless Economy of to say volumes about the loneliness of the transience of relationships which is both liberating and Iso the trap of traditional male the kind of Ginger Jill Clayburgh and Michael Murphy in a scene from an by mixture of competitiveness and Mutual support within the sorority of women struggling to achieve something in hard Eli Wallach has a sad supporting role As a rabbi for whom Mayron takes wedding and bar Mitzvah pictures to keep the coned Bill Given its in sights and its Point of girl friends is not a militant tract but a compassionate portrait that says All the More by letting a life reveal perhaps the most dazzling and ingenious film of the festivals first half has been Jules Lassins a dream of co starring his Melina and Ellen Mercouri plays an International film Star who com mutes Between Hollywood and Athens and who has now come Home to do medea in an outdoor the production is being taped by the a useful expository device that enables Dassin to set the play As painlessly As possible for a modern Audi which has Little latin and no the actress press agent arranges a publicity stunt meeting in prison Between the stage medea and an american housewife Ellen Burstyn while living in Greece where her husband worked for a multinational Cor murdered their children when he left her for a greek it of the medea Story acted out at the level of detergents and Post Toa sties in contemporary life and a device that seems too contrived to yet Dassin has brought it off with astonishing he in something like a made a classic greek tragedy As relevant to the present Day As an unmarried it is a potent an advertisement for the classics As the turning Point was for there Are obviously autobiographical elements in a dream of beyond the fact that the apartment the actress has in Athens a Beautiful Triplex with a thrilling View is Mercouris in the actress speculates on the Candor of Marlon Brandos confessional Soliloquy in last tango in Paris before doing her own for the bbl camera a lament for the abortion she had when it seemed prudent in her Early a stirring cry for men to Honor their commitments for their As Jason had not honoured his to medea or the american has to the movie of Pri Marily a vehicle for Mercouris towering histrionic and her readings of medea grow ing More sibilant and in tense As she gets to know the Are fascinating demonstrations of the Art of the Personas of the mythic stranger in a strange the childlike Bible 20th Century Fox photo unmarried obsessed american housewife Tor Lorn in and the Impe rious actress fuse for a moment into Dassin arranges a Credi ble scene in which Mercouri and the Crew watch the scene for ing mar bergmans Persona in which Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann seem to Exchange Ellen Burstyne which must contend strongly for the Best in the is a mix Ture of unbearable memory and Blind rage and regression to the Sanctuary of a naive child it is something to and no one who sees it is Likely to forget it makes the a dream of passion was written and directed by and its both an homage to his wife and a dramatization of her impassioned Violette Noziere was something else and someone else a French teenager in the Early 1930s who led a startling double life As a Bobby sox schoolgirl and a Jazzy afternoon prostitute with a room of her own and a Lover to she tried to Poison her parents and succeeded in knocking off her a she was sentenced to be guillotined but the president of France commuted it to life Imp is in the end she became a cause seen As a and is the subject of Claude Cha Bros new a magnificently evoked period piece looking at the dangerous hypocrisy that under Lay a seemingly stringent Middle class Isabelle who starred last year in the plays the pouting girl with her banal dreams of a handsome Lover and a drive to the Seaside in his Stephane audran Chabrol plays her who seems to have had a Rich a secret she shares with the the father Jean Carmet is a Railroad Engineer and there was apparently a history of enforced incest in their just simple it to say the least of an unlovely impeccably told and beautifully the Point of View is detached and even icy and Violette is not exactly an engaging although her ingenuity and her bravado at 18 in 1933 Are but As special As she clearly she also is for Chabrol clearly a product of her time and her society a society that had got further and further away from the practice of its preach ments but had not yet begun to look into its own there is a kind of retroactive Rush of comprehension of the whose later life was markedly Dif the comprehension May arrive too late for the films Best although Chabrol immaculate craftsmanship has its Satis fac the films on View create no revised collective View of women or women but they do suggest an affirmative not Only in the United states but around the filmmaking that women Are overdue for equal Ity As a major theme for the for several years the conventional Wisdom in Hollywood was that soft pictures nonviolent stories about relationships also were soft at the Box office to the Point of that Wisdom has been reevaluated on the evidence of Rocky which could be called Active but gentle and Many Fol lowing including the goodbye girl and the turning All of which have conspired to show that movies principally about women could Prosper at the Box not All the woman centred movies at Cannes Are designed for the mass audience Good Bye girl then movies exist across a wide As the lives of women there is More to be said than has and the testimony of Cannes this year is that More is being the women will in a Way have the festivals last since it concludes with Billy Wilders fed from the Tom Tyron Novella about a Dietrich like movie French connection for Canadian films France up Cana Dian promoters have launched a major drive at the Cannes film festival to push commercial sales of Canadian leasing the local Vox Cinema for they Are displaying 16 features for the world movie at the same time a Montre Aliased Victorine International films has decided to enter into the manage ment and financing of the old Victorine studio at Nice on the French it was an the Victorine was one of the first movie studios in in the mid1920s it was occupied by Rex director of the four horsemen of the apocalypse with Rudolph under contract to shot Many scenes for his famous Mare nostrum and the Garden of Allah on its Jean Coc Alfred Marcel Sacha Guitry and Jean Renoir Are other directors worked who has been Active during the last 18 months to transform the Nice studio into a French Centre for International explained the new Ca Nadian because there is a need for a Large production facility inde pendent of the United and tailored to meet the standards of International movie making natural Environ technical expertise the Victorine must become one of the he working in Montreal As if is a deliberate move to har Monize interests outside the United but to bring the two major cultural expressions of the world into a product aware of american requirements and the principals of if Are Sid Ney president of performance guarantees Harry Canadian producer and president of the motion picture producers association of Canada Walter president of Marwick productions and James president of Aubrey administration and develop ment of the studio will be the responsibility of world images through its Claude Harry Salt mans directed by Herbert in which Ballet dancer Mik Hail Baryshnikov will goes before the cameras at the Vic Torine in the killing sea a Harry Gulkin production and a Norbert Saada film with Claude Brasseur and Cath Erine Deneuve Are other movies to be filmed along with fran co Canadian productions for the coming in the Competition for official festival prizes Canada has Only one entry this year and it has the air of a it is the Robert Awa Dandre Leduc Bronswick an ingenious satire that exposes mass Media advertising methods to induce spending a Clever caricature of consume society it blends live action and animation in a fresh and funny fashion that sets it above its the Canadian Cinema has gained International attention lately and is quickly in 1977 the Cannes festivals Sestac Tress award was bestowed on Monique Mercure for her performance in the Canadian while another seen Here out of caused a which traces the career of a female subsequently took honors at the Berlin festival and is a current hit in the Canadian breakthrough came a few seasons ago with the arrival in Cannes of several que Bec films of Superior artistic qual Ity among them once upon a time in the the Art film has not been but there has been a move to More commercial employing famous foreign stars and blood by Claude Cha shot in was a franc Canadian co production and three Canadian players Are in the cast of Chabrol film in 1978 Violette other Canadian films getting attention Here include the third Walker by Canadian writer direct to producer Teri Mcluhan and a Canadia French co production directed by Eddy a the former French a crisis guide cheating Hubby a common men confess by Ginny Pitt new York a half the men in a United states study admitted cheating on their if the study is and Many experts believe it every other Man s having or has had an extramarital a Philadelphia area psychiatrist says the first thing is to examine your relationship with your cheating is a symptom of a relationship in need of says Mary Ann whose new every other examines marital the title is based on a study by Anthony Pietropinto and Jacqueline the study found that half the men questioned said they cheated on their wives and two thirds said they would cheat under certain or believes the findings May not reflect the full extent of adultery in the that an even higher percentage of men May be cheating on their her Book is aimed at women whose husbands cheat but applies to men whose wives Are having she More men than women cheat now because they have More she but i believe that As More women get out and work and travel and do the things most men now there will be More women cheating on their husbands because the opportunities present or of the psychiatry department at the medical College of Pennsylvania and a member of the Board of trustees of the american psychiatric has Deve loped a crisis guide for people whose partners Are there Are two stages suspicion and discovery and suggested courses of action depends Effon whether the cheat ing is a firs time offence or a habitual whether you merely suspect your husband of cheat ing or whether you know it for a examining your relationship first and talking it Over with your husband is a Bartusis if your husband is cheating because something is miss ing in his relationship with you the reasons most husbands cheat you May be Able to end the cheating and strengthen your marriage at the same she if you have conclusive proof that your husband is confront him with she he May be relieved to have the situation out in the to have an Opportunity to discuss whats wrong with your marriage and How you both can make it she does not advocate adultery to bolster a faltering marriage but believes that when cheating has taken if both spouses change it can be a healthier but if one or the other Doest they re heading Down the same Road married and the Mother of she says her husband has never cheated on her that i know of or she on him but no couple is Safe from the temptations constantly or Bartusis says there Are a number of ripoffs to a cheating husband but she cautions wives not to assume the worst As some women Are victims of their own suspicious minds rather than straying but something May be amiss if you notice change in his such As excessive change in his personal such As drinking or eating More or less than usual or suddenly beginning to dress More neatly or More or any other changes in him that cannot be readily try to find a logical she men go through Middle life crisis which often results in erratic behaviour and personality if you have definite proof that your husband is cheat ing or if you confront him with your suspicions and he admits she says if it is the first time it has give him another marriage is too big an investment to consider giving up without trying to save if the evidence consider his affair Over and Start working to strengthen your marriage to prevent a you will never forget his cheating but you and forgive if he has cheated before and he does it seriously consider getting professional help and counselling to save your if he has cheated before and does it again with no sign of wanting to see a lawyer to determine your think about Tell the children you and their father have a problem and prepare them for the possibility that it cannot be but do not say there is another woman unless the evidence is All too or Bartusis believes divorce May be the Only solution in the Case of a husband who repeatedly cheats but a marriage is something that must be protected and saved if at All High Cost of dying gets higher in most nations to in in nun a a riot Prause the majority of by Bill Hartley London Reuter nobody talks about death the director of a French funeral it is a private thing and people can spend As much As they like burying their loved in raging More and More people around the world Are having to talk about in the minimum Price is this gives you a simple coffin and the right to a place in a cemetery for six after that you have to rehire the for most the Finan Cial implications of a sudden death in the family can be Many countries Are running out of burial and this has led to a growth in especially in Western Europe and the United from 1972 to the average Cost of a British Ceme Tery plot jumped 115 per cent and last year by 15 per funeral costs Are comparatively Low with a service including limousine and embalming Cost ing about in West where costs can be As High As for a lavish Crema Tion is catching on and burial at sea becoming More com cremation is also on the increase in the poor Are buried free by town which will also arrange a simple funeral mass for a fee of Between and but few families Are satisfied with such a simple most end up paying hundreds of dollars for More elaborate in the where the problem of funeral costs first came to Public notice with Jessica Mitford scathing Book the High Cost of the situation Borders on the funeral costs have risen by 50 per cent Over the last 10 said one whose prices Range from to average costs Are even higher in where funerals Are usually conducted according to Buddhist rites and presided Over by a Bud and Cost from to a priest is usually paid an additional to More elaborate ceremonies can Rise to in where outsiders usually Are not present at ceremonies Are simple and costs families Are not plunged into debt by death As was the Case with the huge traditional Cere monies of the Crema Tion is generally the in the rest of the Cost of dying is shooting in for funerals can Cost up to because the majority of eth Nic chinese believe the dead should be Well provided for in the next and Hong Kongs traditional chinese families Are prepared to pay up to for a permanent Hillside burial sixty years of communist Rule in the soviet Union has done Little to change funeral although the traditional role of the priest has been largely taken Over by a party or Trad Union the Cost of cremation is about for a total Cost is about final 4 Days Stock reduction 0 off All merchandise 35 off wonderbra swimwear lounge Wear swimwear 263 Kennedy ;