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Article: `LA SEPARATION' EXPLORES LOVE GONE STALE.(What's Happening)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- December 4, 1998
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A couple of recent French films deal with the disintegration of romantic love in ways American movies don't:
Benoit Jacquot's ``Seventh Heaven'' explores the power struggle within a marriage with wry humor and delicate, almost imperceptible, emotional shifts.
Christian Vincent's ``La Separation,'' made in 1994 but just reaching U.S. art houses, takes a slice-of-life look at a disintegrating bond and the pain and anger the split produces. It has a brusque, raw urgency and sophisticated subtleness.
And it features intense, fully dimensional performances by Isabelle Huppert and Daniel Auteuil, who play Anne and Pierre, an unmarried couple with a ...