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April 30, 2005
The Dude abides: Desplechin's bigger Lebowski
Hugh Hart hears Arnaud Desplechin on the quirks behind his new, vital masterpiece, Kings and Queen in the SF Chronicle: The movies I was watching three years ago seemed slightly soft, so the bet for me was: Why not do 2 films? In one, you tell a melodrama in an hour and 10 minutes. Then you make the other one... a real slapstick comedy and put one next to the other... The pleasure would be to jump back and forth from love to tears, from tears to love. ... The 2 1/2-hour tragicomedy is split down the middle, Hart writes, with somber heroine Nora dealing with her father's impending death while her former boyfriend Ismael, an eccentric musician, tries to escape from a mental institution with the help of his drug-addled lawyer. Desplechin modeled Nora on heroines from... Hitchcock films... For antihero Ismael, the filmmaker found contrasting inspiration in The Big Lebowski. With the Dude, Jeff Bridges created this amazing character... We all know someone like him, with that attitude, but he'd never been depicted onscreen.
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