I remember watching these movies with my mom as a little girl (and being so scandalized by Emmanuelle Beart dancing nude after she has bathed in the spring!).
Haha, so funny to see this here. It's one of my wife's favorite movies and I downloaded it a few weeks ago. I was planning on watching it again with her. We saw it in the 80's when it came out.
Interesting stuff, but you write: "Jean exhausts his body and his finances in his pursuit of capitulating the countryside to do his bidding." It seems like you mean something like "in pursuit of forcing the countryside to do his bidding." But to the best of my understanding, "capitulating" does not have a usage that means forcing someone or something else's surrender; it refers to the act of surrender itself. So Jean's purpose might be said to be "compelling the countryside to capitulate" and that would make sense in this context, but "capitulating the countryside" does not.
I remember watching these movies with my mom as a little girl (and being so scandalized by Emmanuelle Beart dancing nude after she has bathed in the spring!).
French are going to French. They can't pass up a casual nude scene
Haha, so funny to see this here. It's one of my wife's favorite movies and I downloaded it a few weeks ago. I was planning on watching it again with her. We saw it in the 80's when it came out.
Interesting stuff, but you write: "Jean exhausts his body and his finances in his pursuit of capitulating the countryside to do his bidding." It seems like you mean something like "in pursuit of forcing the countryside to do his bidding." But to the best of my understanding, "capitulating" does not have a usage that means forcing someone or something else's surrender; it refers to the act of surrender itself. So Jean's purpose might be said to be "compelling the countryside to capitulate" and that would make sense in this context, but "capitulating the countryside" does not.