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...Flynn of the flick is a dashing colonel of les paras (Anthony Quinn) who. is presented as a square-jawed Horatio Algeria. He organizes his regiment to fight a brush-fire war, and with the hesitant assistance of an aide de camp (Alain Delon) who falls in love with a rebel belle (Claudia Cardinale), he conducts a brilliant but brutal campaign in the interior. In the end he wins a general's stars but loses his self-respect...
...ready for any sort of full-scale operation until the fall of 1967. In fact, France's only going color setup is a closed-circuit link between the paddock and the betting windows at Longchamp race track. That made even more apropos the remark of French Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte, who claimed that France, in the hope of Europe-wide agreement, had so far been holding back its color TV industry "like horses at the starting gate." Said Peyrefitte: "Now we're telling them...
...academy, which he attended, as a metaphor of his homeland, and in reciting what he sees as the horrors of life at school suggests what he thinks of life in Peru. More sophisticated is The Opoponax (Simon & Schuster) by France's lissome Monique Wittig, 31. A disciple of Alain Robbe-Grillet, the French fanatic whose "objective" novels systematically reduce people to objects, Author Wittig has composed a synoptical illusion that describes how a little girl grows up by assembling on the page a collage of things she did-not a word about the things she thought or felt. French...
...modern nun and the church. At the time, De Gaulle was running hard for re-election with only grudging support from the church, which quietly disapproves of both his attitude toward a united Europe and his nuclear armament of France. The day before the election, Gaullist Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte announced that if he were in office when La Religieuse was finished, he would "not hesitate" to ban it. As it turned out, Peyrefitte was not in office; the job fell to new Secretary of Information Yvon Bourges, but he imposed the ban with equal dispatch...
...third dominatic figure in the New Wave, Alain Resnais, has explored the possibility of entirely plotless films. His Hiroshima Mon Amour treated time and memory in the same evocative manner with which Faulkner treats them. Hiroshima included a large amount of newsreel footage, a technique also favored by Truffaut, to give yet another impression of time--that between the shooting of the film and an actual event...