There are some new magazine photos from Queen Margot with Vincent looking mighty handsome as Isabelle Adjani's lover, La Mole!

There's an online greeting card web site that features Vincent Perez cards plus two java cards that you can send to other VP fans. They're free so check them out at http://www.greetz.com/Xtreme.

This will be my last update for 1999. Here's hoping that you and yours have a great celebration welcoming in the year 2000!

The first photos from Epouse-Moi (aka Marry Me) have now been added. This film will premiere on January 19 in France, so in another month the reviews should start coming in and, hopefully, Epouse-Moi will be a winner!

The photo to the left was taken when Vincent attended the Le Bossu premiere at the Directors Guild a couple years ago. It was contributed by Jan Morris of Los Angeles, creator of Cinetropic, an online film magazine. Check it out for a nice slide show of photos from Talk of Angels. Jan had the opportunity to see Vincent in person and describes him as "eloquent and elegant." Yes, that sounds like Vincent! Many thanks for the photo, Jan.

Besides Vincent, the film's ensemble includes Michele Laroque (Ma Vie en Rose) and Audrey Tautou (Venus Beaute). Yugoslavian actor Miki Manojlovic has the role of the magus who forecasts the bad news. The cast also includes Arnaud Giovaninetti and the film's music score is by Jean-Michel Bernard.

Beyond the Clouds opened today in San Francisco with warm reviews from the city's two newspapers. The SF Examiner refers to Antonioni's last film as a "rapturous farewell" and a "meditation on love" with the concluding remark that "wanderlust never felt this good." The SF Chronicle describes it as a "wistful, melancholic film about unmet desire... The binding theme in Beyond the Clouds is the ways in which desire distorts perception and leaves us betrayed when our wishes and reality prove incompatible... It's that compelling sense of mystery, of the endless search and its undercurrent of loneliness, that sets this great filmmaker apart."

Also very vivid in all of Antonioni's work is his passionate interest in colors, and in his storytelling, he very carefully uses visual images. Lou Lumenick of the NY Post describes the film with "most notable for its exquisitely composed, painterly images, photographed by Alfio Contini and Robby Muller." Yes, to understand Beyond the Clouds, you must realize Antonionio is a painter of the screen! His writings clearly express this - ''A girl dressed in red just walked by. It was a sort of red I've never seen before and will certainly never see again because it was the girl who gave off the color - her soul, her virtue, her earthiness!''

For complete information, visit the Par-Dela les Nuages film page. For those of you who probably won't get to see it on the big screen, remember you can order the videotape with English subtitles.

Very shortly Cody Sian-Michel will be sending along some wedding photos from Gala magazine as well as a translated article regarding Le Libertin and its cast. My own copy of the Elle '98 issue featuring an eight-page spread on the wedding should be here within a couple weeks. I also just purchased the June 17, 1993 issue of Cine Tele Revue, published in Belgium, which features Sophie Marceau and Vincent on the cover. That should be here by year's end.

And in the spirit of the holiday season, celebrating with merriment and gift-giving, here's another gorgeous photo of Mr. Perez! It was just a clipping sent to me so I have no way of identifying its source. The info on the photo does indicate that it appeared in an Italian publication probably sometime in 1996.

From Detour magazine dated August 1996 comes an in-depth interview, which I think is very revealing in knowing the real Vincent Perez. Rachelle Unreich writes how "emotion reigns his life mercilessly; he has the poet's knack of imbuing the tiniest moment with significance, and thus his most precious memories don't revolve around his acting achievements, but rather around the last tree he looked at with his grandmother before she died, or the smile which the aged Michelangelo Antonioni rewarded him with when he directed Beyond the Clouds."

There's another new interview dated January 14, 1998 from the Scripps Howard News Service in which co-star Rachel Weisz (Swept From the Sea) praises Vincent - "He's a very passionate man, playing a kind of passionate role. He wasn't frightened to unleash all of it. He's so beautiful, but he didn't stand there being still in his close-ups. He really let go of all his feelings, which I thought was bold and refreshing. I had the best working relationship I've ever had with anyone. He's extraordinary."

Cody Sian-Michel of Denver, Colorado has contributed an article from the May 31,1999 issue of Voici magazine regarding the birth of Vincent and Karine's daughter Iman. She also deserves special kudos for doing such a terrific job with the French translation so a heap of thanks should go out to Cody! It looks like my prayers have been answered for a French translator as Cody has offered to translate other articles for the Archives. What a splendid Christmas gift!

A brief article with a photo goes unidentified, but the picture of Vincent makes him look like quite the rascal. It was probably published in early1993 and is called "Punchy Perez."

There are quite a few Perez films being shown on TV this month. Talk of Angels will finally premiere on Starz, Indochine will be shown on the Independent Film Channel, Shot Through the Heart will be on HBO Signature, and Swept From the Sea will be on Showtime. For dates and times, visit the TVNow link below. Remember the cable version of Swept From the Sea differs from the video copy by featuring a much more passionate wedding night for Yanko and Amy!