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and mice rormsns "Arneoeus". Bern has brought together an 'rtet8ettrsrmtr-x-trttttrtrsrtttorraetetrimnmtsuet of the time. Living In the small Mt are communists, De Gaullists. callabomtitmiata, and those who tried to take no position. who just tried to survive. Based on the French writer Marcel Ayme's book of the same title. the film examines the position of the Archambsud family who, in giving of their apartment to neighbors. have forced themselves into a comprimising situation. Living in the fiat with them are the (3aigneuxs, a family with strong Communist Party connections and a willingness to purge their country of all those who have collaborated with the Nazis during the war. Monsieur Archambaud complicates his situation by deciding to harbor a known collaborationist recently escpaped from the police. In another camera! the house lives Watrin, a teacher who has lost his wife, his classroom. his home, and most miraculously, his cynicism. Neither he nor Archambaud agree in principle with the . Displays . . Planning Guides . Gifts . Valuable Prizes . Admittance is FREE, l but by Invitation ONLY! . . To receive an invitation, please telephone. Date: Monday, March 9/92 Hostess: Diana Telephone: 576-6877 French diFector Ciabde Berri, in his latest film, "Uranus", examines this question as it relates to several of the townspeopie who hays been forced, by the bombings, into sharing quarters with each Moat notabte to North American audiences for his work in producing such films as Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" and Milos 5tytl1r1'1_"trtat_itu_t',', Betti "553mm Mather,” Around the rubble of a small bombed-out French village in 1945 and within the minds of its inhabitants lurks a question: Which side were yog on during the Occupation? Depardie'u'"b‘ii‘h'g'é"lif8”t“6""“U“r“é"fiii§ A", i,,tttl,,,t,, tl.!... grewth. tuna, gh hii'i'iiiiii""iii" By Steven Fraser She learns 'th'e GPGGLi, JrrikGiriiiri7i'"iii'rs, climate. While putting up the root rafters _Bob gives up , frustration at the warped What makes Island Sojourn different from the other life-in-the. woods books? Besides being more realistic, Elizabeth Arthur takes us on her interior journey of sell-discovery This is her journal detailing both the outer activities, everything from mixing cement to watching eagles and moose. and the inner evolution ot a young woman costromed by physical and emotional challenges, * A wedding in your - future? -: * Someone you know , being married? . The Brides-to-be are invited to a Welcome Wagon . back.to.the4tmd books by the Angiers and others. " remember this stuff: how to make a woodstove from an oil drum, make flour tmm bull rush roots. that sort of sell reliance.) But the dream and the reality rarely match up. Elizabeth and Bob run out of money before they can winterize their house. They move into the nearest town to make money, quitting their jobs with spring breakup. Bob is a mountaineer- ing instructor. so they spend the next summer working at a camp. By the second wlnter. laced with the realization that they cannot support tl,',',fgt',t,r. in the wilds, they finally abandon the island to return to civi ization, Once in awhile a book shows up that is a gold straw among the haysteck of its peers. Island Solourn is such a book. And the haystack it emerged from was a pile of unsold books being returned to their publishers. The cover. with a painting of a pink sky at sunset, caught my eye and i remembered my curodty being piqued when ord!tringtNrtxxAaytsaraqo. Solrescuedittromthareturns batch and took it home. Now having enjoyed it, Island Sojoum will take its place on my booksheii of personal favorites. The book is a memoir pt two years that Elizabeth and Bot; Arthur spent building a house from scratch on an island in Stuart Lake, British Columbia. This is 1974 and there are hordes of young people, disillusioned with the urban rat race. heading for the woods and mountains of interior BC, the Yukon and Alaska. They've all mad the WEan/ant u." n- U- andévil . . ___ ,,,, ,,, "U""‘_"'l'l""""" "Uranus" plays at the Princess Cinema February 27-March 2 It "Uranus" suffers from anything it's a certain munttanity ot narrative and direction. All the scenes play out evenly, with lime punctuation except for thrpardieu, perhaps retkscting the mundanity of the middle ground of hypocrisy in which most of the characters live, being unable to perfectly choose between anguish and joy, goodness escapee. Maxims Loin, who declares that Hitter was France's "last great chance" Yet they agree to heitrhim, and even to forgive him. Beyond all this, however. is Gerard Deoardieu. We'll remember him 'mmtthrr_ymrtrHrtttteAcattttmyAwrstzt ttott*ttgtMtitmgttttat year, and tram his mute, mountainous posinos in "Green Card", with Andie McDowell, He plays Leopold, the Barman, and seems vaguely central to the film, though I'm unsure why (Indeed, the English translation of the book is entitled the Barman from Blemont). He's been given a lot of room in the story but the connections to the other characters are muddled, lost somewhere in his drunken rantings. But that's not to say they're bad or that he is. He's huge in this film, Not in size but in personality, expansive in presence. As I read the book I followed a similar progression from dream to construction to departure I too wanted to give into the longing for peace and isolation, I too dreaded leaving the island for the supply trips to town. I yearned for them to make it work and last. But the inevitable must be laced. As Elizabeth concludes: Though the moments pass. and buildings tail to ruin, the power to create remains, We are all lynx paws falling on the earth. We all sojourn and we can all build; the only thing we cannot do is stay. Chuck Erion is a Waterloo bookseller and lreelenoe writer. Watrin. played with a deep compassion and heartening resignation by Philippe Noiret (Cinema Paradisio). gives some structure to the otherwise nebulous narrative of the film, He recalls to two members of the household that the night his building was destroyed he was reading an article on the planet Uranus, that “dark. icy star." And that the morning after the loss of everything he owned and loved he was able to experience the deepest joy in the songs of the birds and the wind through the trees. He illuminates a bigger question in the choosing ot sides. Will it be a choice for anguish or joy? Truth or hypocrisy? In her reading she discovers that the words "isle" and "isolation" are from the same mot. And an island is the perfect shape to build a dream in. But cabin fever develops from months of winter gloom and loneliness. She is sure someone is watching them. The two of them begin to quibble. Conflict simmers until violence erupts. And they get apart from each other for a few days. "The island itself is e magnifiying glass for our emotions." After days of embittered silence, they reconnect: wood. Elizabem carries on achieving deep tytttittftttttitm and sore muscles. The struggle with two different motorboars before buying a canoe. Travel in it is curtailed by high waves. but they can explore shallow bays covered in lilly pads, LR!, nest... Relax... Rejuvenate .’ 475 King Street North, Waterloo, Ontario. N2] 225 . Telephone (519)884-0220 Fax(519)884-0321 . WATERMO Topy, "$2 WATERLOO WW5. WAY. FEBRUARY 26, 1992 . PAGE " : "C1'li"tr(ic'ii' i" } aiiailg% I I I N ETWORK I ! 597 King St. N., Waterloo ! 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