arts 'Les Petites' is a pleasant escape By SHAWN ISRAEL Collegian Staff Writer To watch Yves Persin's Swiss comedy "Les Petites Fugues (Little Escapes )" is to see a pastoral approach to filmmaking. The film, which won the Critics Week Selection award at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival, is alternately refreshingly sunny, quiet, relaxing and even a little boring. To see the movie is to experience life at a slower pace. Most of the 135-minute film takes place on the Duperrex farm in a large country village. The central character is Pipe (Michel Robin), a 66-year-old farm hand who has served the family for over forty years. His frame is gaunt and his gait slow, and he eats his meals with the family and lives in a small room whose only prominent feature is a painting of the Matterhorn. "Fugues" begins at a crucial point in Pipe's life. He is shown waiting for the train that will bring him the moped he purchased out of monthly payments from an old-age pension fund. After some fumbling attempts to ride the bike, Pipe begins to ride it regularly, discover ing it a fine escape from the various trappings on the farm that restrict and inhibit him. The ropes on Pipe's liberty are chiefly the members of the Duperrex family. John (Fred Personnae), the head of the household and Pipe's employer, is contin ually morose from increasing debts and creeping old age. Alain (Laurent Sandoz), John's son, coldly argues with his father (and everyone else) that only modern ization can save the farm. Josiane (Fabienne Bar raud), the Duperrex daughter, is unmarried and caring (badly, it seems) for her four-year-old son. She is also resentful of having to stay on with her parents. Director Yersin treats most of the scenes in "Fu gues" as part of a continuum, and audiences may find many sequences annoyingly incomplete at times. The Christian romance novels to hit bookstores LOS ANGELES (AP) " David, don't you know that I love you too?' His eyes widened with amazement, then joy, and his lips moved hungrily to hers. . ." This love scene from "On Wings of Love" by Elaine L. Schulte doesn't end in the bedroom, as it might in other romance novels. The book is among a new breed of "inspirational" romances with Christian overtones. Such more-modest melodrama will become more common on bookshelves starting next month with publication of the first six in a series of romance novels from Zon dervan, an evangelical Christian publisher in Grand Rapids, Mich. Silhouette Books, a division of Simon & Schuster that publishes several contemporary romance lines, also has announced its own line of inspirational romances to be Best in the film, however, is - Michel Robin in an, extraordinary performance as the elderly but bouyant farmhand. Only 51, he creates the character of Pipe flawlessly. I still find it hard to believe he is not 15 years older. Robin uses his expressive eyes and gangly body eloquently in presenting Pipe's alternating frus tration ( when he is first learning to ride the bike) and elation (as he gleefully watches a motorcycle race in a nearby village). Also intriguing as a subplot is the romance that burgeons between Josiane and Luigi (Dore De Rosa), the good-natured Italian seasonal worker. It builds slowly but is continually intriguing thanks to the likeability of the characters as played by Barraud and De Rosa, whose interactions can at once have the charm of a "Thin Man" movie and an earthy sensuali ty. Don't expect the ground to shake as a result of seeing "Les Petites Fugues." The film is slow, sometimes irritatingly slow. Visually and through its characters, however, it offers rewards to the patient viewer. "Les Petites Fugues" is showing at 7 and 9:15 tonight in 112 Kern. released next February "At the last Christian Booksellers Association convention the whole word was fiction," said Ms. Schulte, of Rancho Santa Fe. Her novel of shipboard romance stays well within the Zondervan guidelines, which emphasize - love from a Christian perspective." For example, on potential sexual encounters, the guidelines state: "There will be inevitable moments of sexual tension between the lead characters. Descriptions of kissing and embracing are permitted with in the bounds of good taste. (But) the ability of the hero and-or hero ine to observe certain limits to prevent sexual feelings from over powering them is an essential distinctive of the Christian ro mance." "On Wings of Love" makes it clear the hero and heroine part ending also seems too abrupt. Yersin, however, has a fine knack for realizing the magic and charm that can come out of real life. His characters speak and act like real people. Yersin and photographer Robert Alazraki also have developed "Fugues" beautifully in visual terms. The colors here are warm and earthen, and long, static shots nicely lend a strong sense of reality to the film. The one hazard is that like life, "Fugues" is not composed of all perfect moments. There are some incredibly long, wordless stretches (chiefly in the film's first half hour) that contribute little or nothing to the story or the viewer's understanding of the charac ters. company after their kisses and don't go to bed together, the author said. Ms. Schulte previously has writ ten an inspirational young adult book and many short stories and articles for women's magazines. Her purpose in the Christian story is not to "educate" the reader, she said, but "to open the reader's imagination to new possibilities of relating to God, to understand his forgiveness and love." .The Zondervan guidelines say all references to Christianity "should be a natural outgrowth of plot and characterization." The novels will be "entertaining stories . about wholesome - people of faith," but without focusing on par ticular denominations or differ ences in beliefs, said Karen Solem, editor in chief of Silhouette's "Inspiration" series. Asia's 'Alpha': Mass-produced generic rock By RON YEANY Collegian Staff Writer "ALPHA" Asia, Geffen GHS 4008 Asia certainly knows how to mass-produce music that will ap peal to almost everyone. Their de but album in the spring of 1982 made them an instant supergroup with a huge following. That debut album was also one of 1982's best offerings in the rock world. Asia brought us such mem orable classics as "Heat of the Moment," "Only Time Will Tell" and the best song of that over played debut, "Wildest Dreams." But Asia seems to have forgotten that popular music can be used for more reasons than to fatten their already bulging wallets. Lyrical content with thoughts, purposes and solutions goes very well with wide-range rock. Alpha, Asia's second chapter on how to make best-selling albums, tells everyone that once you reach popularity, you can throw lyrical intelligence out the window. Asia is very good at what they do, but on Alpha they have made an album of generic sounds that DJs love to play and consumers love to gobble up from the record racks. album review And the biggest shame of A lpha's popularity is that there are hun dreds of other bands who put some thought into their music and settle with selling only a handful of cop ies. "Don't Cry" is the hit single here. Not only has radio been playing this one constantly, MTV and their clones and counterparts in the vi deo-music world have been warm ing screens relentlessly with the video. Granted the "Don't Cry" concept clip is the best thing Asia has to offer from Alpha, enough is enough. How about those world-wise ly rics found in "Don't Cry:" "Hard Times you had before you/ I knew when I first saw you/ You girl you've always been mistreated, cheated/ So leave it all behind you/ It took so long to find you/ I know that we can last forever/ ever and more, more, oh,/ Don't Cry. . ." Sound's great, right? Any junior high poetry teacher would probably give Asia a "C" for their lyrics, and that would be stretching it just because the teacher wouldn't want to flunk the class's most popular students. I would love to run some good lyrics, but I simply cannot find any that provoke much more than a grunt. Now for the music that is a different song altogether. Asia's sound is tighter than ever. They are, after all, a band of four sea soned musicians that add up to decades of experience. Carl Palm er (formerly of Emerson, Lake & . . . ) has years of experience behind r."O ftltT.; ' t :•1 "tv"t:~": }t om .:.r~;i / ' •1 i'' ht0',..t.,'1 .. , r.p,• ' ;,,W ~..„,...,, t , , - •,,... .'1 , ' " ' ••„' •/' f .. '•• ''',- ",--- ,4 ) ,,, s 3 3f ity 440 0 ! ti, i, '-•.'"':' ''',‘, ' - N",' - -,- .• 1 1 , • -' -•,.. 1 1 , , ' l% . . . . 1 -,....- , 4. , • 4 - -------,, ~. c '- ' - ':: - :-.L.›•5,3,. :•", - i , 45. 14: ) , , 4 11, ik ..)., /ti•, , , • ~. mo w - ~, \ ~,•-• V* - .* . • , ,1 Jo . •-,' .... „ N N.... ....„.. i • ',.? 0,: :: , ;.,;:. ~er, •,;',. . i, ,' , . •11, - , ••• ' ~•,... , No ',..,,, . 7e , - p ~,,... as. Do cry.. . Asia, whose debut album was 1982's biggest seller, has fallen into the world of the sophomore jinx with Alpha (above), a musically complex and yet lyrically simple album that does not fulfill the capabilities of a talented group such as Asia. Alpha is currently surging its way toward the top of the charts while the single, "Don't Cry," seems to be doing the same. .• The Daily Collegian Monday, Aug. 29, 1983 a drum set. Keyboardist Geoff Downes, guitarist Steve Howe and bassist/vocalist John Wetton all have made their rounds through other bands. The resulting sound , is the trend in rock music today: lush har monies crafted around a full and broad sound. Asia is one of those who sets the standards. How could they go wrong with their musical approach? But musical craftsmanship aside, Alpha falls far short of being the intellectual album that Asia should very well be capable of doing. Even more digusting, when cou pled with the mega-sales of Alpha, is the knowledge that many rock bands like U 2 are gaining critical success but aren't making Asia type dollars at the cash register. x , ;~~ . ; RED. •;., Geffen Records arts Cleo Laine and Dankworth.set By MARY CAMPBELL AP Newsfeatures Writer Cleo Laine, with her expressive four-octave voice, and. her husband, saxophonist-band leader Johnny Dan kworth, are on a world tour. ' Miss Laine, the only singer whose recordings have been nominated in pop, jazz and classical Grammy Awards categories, gives concerts which include pop, jazz and art songs, many with Dankworth arrangements and accompaniment. In October, she'll star in "A Little Night Music" in Detroit, and Dank worth will conduct. "It's just for ,two weeks, which is nice," she says. "You don't get sort of gray around the edges, like in a long run." They gave concerts in America in July, in Australia in August, return to America for two and a half months. 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To do it, she turned down Duke Elling ton's "Sophisticated Ladies" on Broadway. • Miss Laine has two new record albums, "Smilin' Through" with Dudley Moore on piano, on Finesse Records, , and "One More Day," where songs tell the story of a wom an's life, on DRG Records. • "In 1958 we were playing an Oxford University ball," Dankworth recalls. "The band finished and we heard someone playing piano. It turned out to be young Dud. We struck up a friendship that we've kept ever since. "After he left school, where he trained as a countertenor choral sing er, he worked with my band about nine months. He left to do 'Beyond the Fringe' at the Edinburgh Festival with Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett. He asked for three weeks to do it. I told him to go off, and I wouldn't hold him to the three weeks. "After that, he did a lot of accom: panying for Cleo. He's a very good jazz pianist, very original. I'm sure if he had devoted more time to it, he could have got to the top in that Dankworth says history repeated itself three years ago. "He came and saw one of our concerts in Los Angeles. He wasn't doing anything. We invited him to be our guest at the London Palladium in October. He signed a contract. Then he called and told us he was offered a film and the time clashed. Knowing the sizes of parts he had before then, we told him to get his shooting changed. He couldn't. It was release him or lose a friend for life. It was 'lo,' which swept him into the lime light." Miss Laine says, "That's two fa vors he owes us and we've only made one record." One of Dankworth's songs, "Play It Again Sam," is on "Smilin' Through." Two are by Moore, "Strictly for the Birds" and "Before Love Went Out of Style." Most are standards. Dankworth plays on that record but not on "One More Day." The singer says, "An English bass player, Daryl Runswick, and lyricst Kerry Crabbe wanted to write a cycle of songs about a woman's life and loves and breakups and friendships for an album. I was sort of the ob vious one to do it. They , played a couple of tunes I liked. "We got down to work. I gave them ideas and rejected or accepted songs as they came along. I didn't reject many.. "The ending is hopeful. I suppose you could look at it as a women's lib piece but it didn't set out to be. It's something both men and women can relate to. Everybody had a first love." Next April Miss Laine will cut a second album with classical guitarist John Williams. "I'm not sure of the label," Dankworth says. "We make them first and place them later. You make the albums you want to make that way. I'm going to be on that one. It's in the contract, it's in the mar riage vows. All my worldly goods and one album per year I thee endow." 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