Word: astruc
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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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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