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...JEAN ANOUILH...
Becket. (1964) Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole are exceptional as Henry II and Becket in this film version of the Jean Anouilh play. CH. 10. 8:30 p.m. Color...
Based on Ingmar Bergman's 1956 sex comedy Smiles of a Summer Night, imbued with a kind of mocha fantasy more typical of France's Jean Anouilh, Night Music is a masquelike affair, tailor-made to fit Sondheim's flair for depicting confused people experiencing ambivalent thoughts and feelings. Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm flaunts his amours openly in front of his wife, but at the barest hint that she may be following suit, he sputters...
Item: Jean Anouilh, with his third play to be running on the boulevards this year, is the kind of illusionist who pretends to show the audience just how it's done. In Don't Wake Madame, he turns some show-business clichés upside down with his accustomed skill, but only to shake out the last sticky-sweet drops of sentimentality...
Lacking the audacity to represent a naive childlike purity of faith, and incapable of the sophisticated myth-mocking irony of an Anouilh or a Giraudoux, Peter Stone rests his book, derived from Clifford Odets' The Flowering Peach, on the pitiably thin humor of anachronism. Except for one beguiling ballad, I Do Not Know a Day I Did Not Love You, Richard Rodgers' score is almost barren of melodic appeal, and Martin Charnin's lyrics could have been ticked off by a metronome...