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...ending may be obscure, but there is nothing unbelievable about the rest of the picture or the performance of its star. Geneviève Bujold, who first caught the eye of moviegoers with a bit part in Alain Resnais's La Guerre Est Finie (TIME, Feb. 3, 1967), has the kind of fragile, elfin charm and doe-eyed allure that wins without wanting to. The name is pronounced Jahn-vee-jev Boo-johld. It is a name to remember...
These days, politics takes precedence over everything, including the wedding of his only son Alain, 25, a recent medical-school graduate, which was unfortunately scheduled during last month's crisis. Pompidou saw the civil ceremony on home slides the night of the election; he did get to the church ceremony some days later...
...from the time we are young to buy, to go into debt, to get the Frigidaire, the car. Life for a Frigidaire? This is the life our parents want us to live. For us, the only value is man, the only thing that matters is man." Sociologist Alain Touraine, 42, agrees that France "has become a society of things, not of ideas. The students reject not only the things but the authorities who direct that society-they do not believe in institutions like the university...
...collage of footage by six left-wing French directors, including Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais and Claude Lelouch, Viet Nam piously begins by disclaiming any prejudice. It is, says the narrator, "an indictment of American foreign policy, not Americans." But the Americans on camera are treated with savage contempt. General Westmoreland's address to Congress is shown on color TV while someone fiddles with the color and intensity. Hubert Humphrey utters an optimistic appraisal of Europe as "Humphrey, Go Home!" signs parade past the camera...
France's Alain Robbe-Grillet believes in the cult of impersonality. The "new novel," with which he made large literary waves during the '50s, said goodbye to psychology and presented people and their actions as reflected in surface appearances and objective happenings. In 1961 he wrote the haunting, memorable Last Year at Marienbad, a movie in which it was marvelously impossible to tell who (if anyone) was doing what (if anything) to whom, let alone...