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...GUERRE EST FINIE. Director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima Mon Amour) explores the mind of an old-guard Spanish Civil War Communist (Yves Montand), and builds a biography that may be overly literary but never tedious...
...Hiroshima Mon Amour and Muriel, Director Resnais is obsessed with the mixture of memory and desire, and his overly literary Guerre at times seems both pat and prolonged. Viewers, however, are not likely to be bored with the performance of actor-singer Yves Montand. With a sour, craggy face fatefully evocative of Bogart and Camus, he exhales an air of melancholy strength that makes Diego seem as abused and battered as an old zinc bar-and just as uncorrodible...
...Hiroshima Mon Amour and Muriel, Director Resnais is obsessed with the mixture of memory and desire, and his overly literary Guerre at times seems both pat and prolonged. Viewers, however, are not likely to be bored with the performance of actor-singer Yves Montand. With a sour, craggy face fatefully evocative of Bogart and Camus, he exhales an air of melancholy strength that makes Diego seem as abused and battered as an old zinc bar - and just as uncorrodible...
...allegedly obscene film is the work of a famous author, does his repu tation make the work "socially impor tant" and, therefore, not obscene? No, ruled the California District Court of Appeal in the case of Jean Genet's Un Chant d'Amour. The French scatologist's literary fame "does not provide a carte blanche when he ventures into the fields covered by the film," which is a searing, silent 30-minute portrayal of a sadistic prison guard alternately beating and spying upon four convicts engaged in various homosexual acts. Worse, said the court, Chant itself...
...erotic scenes recur with increasing intensity and without direction toward any well-defined, wholesome idea." As of now in California, declared the court, Chant d'Amour is "nothing more than hard-core pornography, and should be banned...