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...Astruc should have been concentrating on the road as he drove along the icy edge of the Lot River in southwestern France. But Astruc is a spelunker, always on the lookout for potholes to pop into. To him, the little frost-free spot he saw in a limestone cliff suggested a cave entrance that had become plugged up. He stopped to probe the spot with a crowbar. Stones and dirt caved in; warm air whooshed out. Suddenly Astruc was staring into a narrow tunnel. "I was alone," he says, "afraid to go in very far, or stay very long...
Stomach Crawlers. Astruc came back with fellow members of the Quercy Speleological Club of Cahors. They all crawled headfirst into the hole, soon found themselves in a passageway no more than 20 in. high. Exhaling to squeeze between rocks, rubbing their noses in the wet clay, they inched along. Then one of them saw carvings on the ceiling...
Director Alexander Astruc and screenplay writer Roland Laudenbach take great care to preserve in End of Desire the mood of Guy de Maupassant's Une Vie. They translate novel into movie with a confident, graceful fluency. The picture does not show the strain to telescoping and rearranging that often ruins adaptations; End of Desire seems like a filmed transliteration of the original story. In Maria Schell's dolorous eyes, Maupassant's anguish over undeserved suffering arrives on the screen intact...
CINEMA.: "The U.S. movie industry has seen to it that most adolescents look like Marlon Brando, and if possible James Dean. In Paris there are 10,000 Marlon Brandos, 10,000 James Deans, and ten Yul Brynners." But by and large, French moviemen admire Hollywood. Says Alexandre Astruc, one of France's brightest young directors: "American movies are for me the very first in the world. The reason? Because in them one never feels what really kills a movie-the contempt of those who make them for the public and for their art." Jean Cocteau enters a dissent: "Hollywood...
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