Word: au
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the buoyancy Tacchella successfully distills from the group scenes, Cousin, Cousine doesn't live up to its billing as a winsome masterpiece, largely because the amorous cousins, played by Marie Christine Barrault and Victor Lanoux, are au fond too shallow. While no one would demand a trenchant political or psychological comment from romantic comedy, we do expect two distinct and compelling personalities whose collision will charm or amuse us. Maybe I'm prejudiced by American films (especially the screwball variety), but I want more quirkiness and spunk from the leads. Although Barrault and Lanoux are frequently endearing...
...Voyage au Bout de la Nuit (translated as Journey to the End of Night) is as un-Proustian as a novel can be. Its scenes are the battlefields of World War I, hospital wards, lunatic asylums. The mysterious author's protagonist-narrator is a most reluctant soldier and postwar wanderer named Bardamu. Murderers, wife beaters and abortionists appear as ordinary characters in Journey. Its language-French jangled into street argot-is a kind of frenzied shorthand of pain, terror and hate...
Controôle au Sol: JVH, Québec sol. Piste zéro six, vent zéro sept zéro à cinq, l'heure zéro deux cinq cinq, altimètre deux neuf neuf quatre. A la piste...
Pilote: Québec sol, JVH au hangar numéro trois. Puis-je circuler? Répondez...
Controôle au Sol: JVH, Québec sol, la radio fonctionne...