![]() Other complications involve Mado, who works for Lili and who is in love with a non-responsive Robert and an American, a former lover of Robert's mother Jeanne (Delphine Seyrig) he has returned to Paris and wishes to replicate their affair with her. Robert is in love with the manager of the next-door hairdressing salon, Lili, mistress of a wealthy businessman who purchased the salon for her to keep himself in good romantic standing. The structure of the scenario has virtually all of the action taking place within a Parisian shopping mall, 'Toison d'Or' (the name of which is the wittiest item in the film) and revolves about the romantic inclinations of young Robert, son of the owners of a ready-to-wear boutique. The Paris based Belgian director Chantal Ackerman tries something a trifle wide of her customary metier with what one might suppose is an attempt at a pastiche of Hollywood musicals. In the background, a Yank who was a soldier in France in World War II returns to Paris and tries to recapture the love of his wartime sweetheart, Robby's mom. Irritated by this, Delphine chose one evening to enter the stage, sit on the couch she had to and then stay in silence for about ten minutes as a form of provocation. ![]() It was an habit for spectators to arrive even ten minutes after the beginning of a performance, consequently making distracting noises. In her autobiography 'Le temps et rien d'autre', shares an anecdote about a stage production of 's 'Old Times' where she starred opposite Delphine. Truffaut later stated that he would have been in trouble had she declined the offer, because, when he had finished to write the script, he had realized that only the 'Marienbad' actress could have played the character. Some time after having sent her the script, the director went to see the actress in a stage performance of 's 'The Lover' to later have dinner with her at her place in Place des Vosges and hear her response. ![]() Wrote the part of Fabienne Tabiard in (1968) specifically for Delphine, having loved her performances in (1961) and (1963). ![]()
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