Historiettes

Au cœur des Terres Légendaires des Temps Jadis, Orgies Barbares narre les aventures de sorcières, mages, mercenaires, inquisiteurs, créatures maléfiques, voleurs et autres brigands, à la recherche de justice ou de fortune selon leurs prédispositions. Tous ont un point commun : ils considèrent que le pouvoir des passions érotiques est une arme bien plus puissante qu'un sortilège ou une épée acérée.

Les douze mois de l'année jalonnés par quelque quatre cents notules, observations, gloses, citations et autres historiettes.
Michel Tournier, habitué aux récits de longue haleine - "Vendredi, Les météores, Les Rois mages", etc. -, s'essaie ici dans l'instantané. Cela va des abeilles de son jardin à un assassinat à Central Park (New York), du violoncelle de pablo Casals à la philosophie du fouet.
Mais le rire et l mort sont rarement absents de ces pages…

Using the short stories of Raymond Carver as a jumping-off point, american maverick director Robert Altman weaves a tapestry of interlocking tales set against the seedy backdrop of contemporary middle-class Los Angeles. Tracking the various stages of denial, rage, and despair in the lives of several couples–a philandering cop and his masochistic spouse (Tim Robbins and Madeline Stowe); a helicopter pilot who gets revenge on his ex by trashing her house (Peter Gallagher and Frances McDormand); a man and woman whose perfect life falls apart when they lose their son in a hit-and-run accident (Bruce Davison and Andie MacDowell); a pool cleaner who listens in mounting frustration to his wife performing phone sex each day while tending her brood of children (Chris Penn and Jennifer Jason Leigh); a wealthy couple who are haunted by an incident from the past (Matthew Modine and Julianne Moore); an aging jazz singer and her suicidal daughter (Annie Ross and Lori Singer); an alcoholic limo driver and his waitress wife (Tom Waits and Lily Tomlin)–Altman reveals their common threads of family dysfunction and marital discord in the unforgiving glare of the Southern California sunlight. The result is a sweeping motion picture that also stands as an important sociological artifact of late 20th century Los Angeles life.

Using the short stories of Raymond Carver as a jumping-off point, american maverick director Robert Altman weaves a tapestry of interlocking tales set against the seedy backdrop of contemporary middle-class Los Angeles…