Article: LA VIE OR SOMETHING LIKE IT.(Pasatiempo)(Movie review)

Byline: ROBERT BENZIKER I FOR THE NEW MEXICAN

La vie or something like it

Robert Benziker I For The New Mexican

Paris, drama, rated R, in French with subtitles,

CCA Cinematheque, 3.5 chiles

Robert Altman died in 2006, and his influence on world cinema remains as strong as ever. In particular, the concept of following multiple characters through extraordinary moments of their ordinary lives -- hatched with Jean Renoir's 1939 film Rules of the Game but popularized with Altman pictures such as Nashville and Short Cuts -- has become one of the more popular devices of recent years, in movies by filmmakers from America (Crash), ...

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