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...director, Gilles Carle, the soft-X Deitrich/Sternberg of French-speaking Canada. To this day, nobody in a Canadian film has thrown off her clothes with the abandon of the beautiful Ms. Laure."
Peary's breathless article, "Babes in Bovland" (Take One No. 8), was a whimsical homage to Laure and a tiny group of Canadian film actresses who could ignite the screen with beauty and sexual energy, but, of course, Laure, spectacularlry blessed with the quality Billy Wilder called "movie flesh," never got stuck in the realm of mere babedom. Her work with Carle, all raw emotion and basic instinct, led to roles in films like Bertrand Blier's Oscar-nominated Preparez vos mouchoirs (1977). During the 1980s, Laure reinvented herself as a singer and in 2001 she debuted as a movie director with Les Fils de Marie, a melancholic exploration of bereavement.
Co-scripted with Pascal Arnold and screened in the Cannes 2002 Critics' Week, Les Fils de Marie is about a woman (played by Laure), who loses her husband and son in a car crash. Like the Juliette Binoche character in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colours: Blue, Marie is overwhelmed by grief. Like many Kieslowski characters, she responds to her despair in an...
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