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...other film makers, who (like Haskell Wexler in the kinetic Medium Cool) either put his techniques to better dramatic use or (like Agnes Varda in the festival's ludicrous Lions Love) sink beneath the weight of aimless stylistic decoration. Le Go/ Savoir features Jean-Pierre Léaud and Juliet Berto sitting around a TV studio engaging in a lot of Mickey Mouse debate about linguistics and mouthing doses of Godard's peculiar politics (the FBI had Bobby Kennedy shot) and aesthetics (Léaud shows striking workers two truly revolutionary films: Lola Monies and The Great Dictator...
STOLEN KISSES. Francois Truffaut's new film is another chapter in his cinematic autobiography, a souvenir of the frantic romances and comic careers of an adolescent (Jean-Pierre Léaud) reaching for manhood...
...also a chapter in Truffaut's continuing cinematic autobiography. Antoine Doinel, once again played by Jean-Pierre Léaud, is Truffaut's self-styled persona, who got banished to reform school in The 400 Blows and was spurned by his girl friend in Love at Twenty. Now, in Kisses, he is seen leaving the army after struggling to get a psychological discharge. "You can always sell ties," shrugs his commanding officer, adding hopefully: "I hope we never meet again." His girl friend's father fixes him up with a cushy job as a hotel night clerk...
...Before there can be any truth, whatever," Sartre writes, "there must be an absolute truth, aud there is such a truth which is simple, easily attained and within the reach of everybody; it consists in one's immediate sense of one's self...
Love at Twenty. It happens to almost everyone. To Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) it happens at a concert for young people. Just across the aisle he sees a lovely young thing (Marie-France Pisier) with big dark eyes and a flood of thick dark hair. When the concert is over he tries to follow her home, but the subway swallows her up. At the next concert she smiles absently in his direction-Antoine reels with bliss. At the next she actually speaks to him-Antoine has found his Cléopâtre. Colette, on the other hand...