Word: alaine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alain Colas. A handsome 28-year-old Frenchman with a Tahitian beauty as his fiancee and the sea as his mistress, Colas was ashore in Newport, sipping a heady mixture of champagne and acclaim. Colas (pronounced Kola) had crossed the finish line 20 days, 1 3 hours and 15 minutes after the start, for the fastest - by more than five days - winning time in the four quadrennial races held to date. In his ugly duckling of a boat, the 70-ft. by 35-ft. aluminum trimaran Pen Duick IV, Colas had averaged about 150 nautical miles...
Directed by ALAIN TANNER...
Screenplay by ALAIN TANNER and JOHN BERGER
...scene is a little clumsy for such an understated film. Swiss Director Alain Tanner also betrays an un fortunate tendency to hone a point or a joke until it loses its edge. In one se quence Rosemonde is shown at work, standing beside a machine that stuffs sausages inside skins with regular bursts of phallic efficiency. The image is funny and outrageous at first, but Tanner holds it longer to convey Rose monde's glazed boredom, then longer still, as if congratulating himself on his own cleverness...
...Partle de Compagne by Jean Renoir, and Alain Resnais' Les statues Meurent Aussl. Winthrop JCR, 7:30, April 20. Free...