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Friday, August 15, 2008 12:00 AM

A French master's farewell to love

Eric Rohmer's pastoral Renaissance fantasy, "The Romance of Astrea and Celadon," couldn't be a weirder, or lovelier, way to say goodbye.

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Friday, August 15, 2008 12:50 PM

Celadon

This is also the name given to a type of Chinese porcelain with a cloudy green glaze. The porcelain glaze was meant to imitate jade. Celadon ware was first imported into Europe at about the same time that d'Urfe's romances were popular. The beautiful shepherd Celadon was portrayed as wearing a green cloak, hence the name.

Saturday, August 16, 2008 06:26 AM

No, Moron...

...Rohmer is an old man, an artist, who is dreaming of his youth. The fact that he has a camera and access to other artists of his own trade are a happy accident of his own fate...and our's.

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