"At base, work is the same as love, the same gestures."-PassionIn Passion, a film called Passion is being made by two East European filmmakers; visually, it is based on tableaux vivants of famous paintings. But because "you have to live stories before inventing them," the action moves off set to the snowy factory-suburb where the studio is located, with its very real dramas of labor and its labors of love. And as the factory workers revolt, so do the people in pictures (paintings and film); art is not separate, art is work as work is love. Isabelle Huppert is moving and a little scary as an anguished proletariat, and Hanna Schygulla's bourgeoise is interestingly evolved since Godard's Weekend. Godard's renditions of Rembrandt and Delacroix alone make Passion a viscerally exciting film, but there is much more; the characters refuse to be written and their emotions, therefore, jump off the screen-as-canvas. This is not a still life. (JB)