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...music that is often about as easy to watch as Schoenberg is to listen to. Then why, in the last year, has this picture done a sellout business all over France? Belmondo explains some of the excitement. A ferally magnetic young animal, he is now being called "the male Bardot." But more important than Belmondo are the film's heart-stopping energy and its eye-opening originality...
...Marines," commented French Director Roger Vadim (who gave the world Brigitte Bardot), "plants a sword in the human consciousness, for it tells of young volunteers who, in order to prove their human identity, accept precisely the contrary: loss of their individuality . . . Still, I know well while writing these words freely that I owe my freedom in part to other shaved-headed young men who 16 years ago brandished these bayonets on beaches now boasting bloody names...
...would explode in anger or dissolve in passion, instead of just standing still and raising his eyebrows. Michele Morgan, the disillusioned milliner, was also rather static; it seemed that the director had instructed her to play a long-suffering, cynical woman, and that's about all she did. Brigitte Bardot, who appeared now and then as another dragoon's lover, acted like a high school girl in her first play...
Everybody's Advice. Whatever else the horrendous hoyden may be, she is a hot movie property, originally bought by Bardot Producer Raoul J. Levy for a record-breaking $57,000. When he decided that the story was too hot to shoot, after all, he sold it to Malle, who explains: "What encouraged me the most was that everybody advised me against it." His solution: rendering the novelist's gush of gutter talk through Sennett-like changes of pace, face and place-with virtually a sight-gag per frame. The result: a remarkably faithful translation of the book that...
...dancers Brigitte Bardot in "Come Dance With Me" is at the Brattle, and "Dark at the Top of the Stairs" is playing at the University...