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...MIDDLE OF THE WORLD, also made by a Swiss, Alain Tanner (The Salamander), is as coolly intelligent and as subtle as La Paloma is giddy. The film concerns the intense affair between an engineer running for local political office (Philippe Leotard) and a waitress (Olimpia Carlisi). Their joyous mutual carnality nearly convinces them both that they were made for each other. The engineer still believes it, in fact, when the waitress leaves him. This film is wise in the ways and reasons people deceive themselves, rich in its exploration of the blindness that fervor can bring...
STAVISKY, Alain Resnais's first feature in five years, is a sort of symbolic biography of the French swindler (nicely played by Jean-Paul Belmondo) whose exposure almost brought down the Third Republic in 1934. Resnais has had the movie photographed like a posh '30s illustration, a style made fashionable by films as varied as The Conformist and Chinatown. But Resnais undercuts all his images of antique chic (among which may be counted Anny Duperey as Stavisky's wife) with symbols of death: orchids, cemeteries, the funeral pyramid in the Pare Monceau. Resnais and his screenwriter, Jorge...
...Guerre Est Finie isn't playing at the Science Center because it's playing at the Brattle, and it's really too good and too intelligent a movie to miss. Alain Resnais directed and Yves Montand starred in this account of the trials and tribulations of the Old Left revolutionary, and the sympathetic understanding they convey about politics as a vocation surpasses a lot of the stuff sociologists have written on the subject...
...Guerre Est Finie is a political essay about the remnants of the Old Left revolution, directed by Alain Resnais and starring Yves Montand. The film is not casual entertainment in any sense, and if that's what you're up for this week see something else. But if you're interested in how it felt to be a leftist in the days of the party line, if you feel any sympathy at all for the single-minded pursuit of a political dream, then see this by any and all means. Resnais's movie will touch you, inform you, will make...
...ballot, it is certain to be crowded with aspirants of every political persuasion. If no one wins a majority of the votes cast, the top two candidates will meet in a runoff, scheduled for May 19. Until the victor takes office, the acting head of state is Alain Poher, 64, President of the Senate. Poher served as interim President five years ago, during the hiatus between De Gaulle's resignation and Pompidou's inauguration. In the subsequent election, he surprised many by coming in second to Pompidou...