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...THIEF OF PARIS. French Director Louis Malle (The Lovers) could have used a first story for this disjointed film about a fin de siecle second-story man. Even so, there are a few stolen treasures, including Jean-Paul Belmondo's performance...
...Thief of Paris. The outlaw has been an object of fascination for the French cinema from Pepe le Moko to La Guerre Est Finie. In Thief, the subject for study is Jean-Paul Belmondo, an impenitent housebreaker operating in the gleaming fin de siecle Paris...
Director Louis Malle (The Lovers) unreels his film novelistically, in segments. The beginning, reminiscent of the early Guinness films, is delightfully allusive and elusive. But in the middle, Malle abruptly switches to a pictorial history of burglary as Belmondo goes through a repetitious series of tedious jobs of greater interest to criminals and cops than to ordinary citizens. The end is something else again: sympathetic character studies proving Nietzsche's dictum that the criminal is only a strong man made sick...
...along, the second-story man could have used a first story, a plot to join the disparate chapters of his life. Still, Thief has a number of hidden treasures, notably the subtle, restrained performances of Belmondo and Genevieve Bujold against the richly reconstructed backdrop of period Paris. As a film, it all adds up to nothing, but as De Gaulle has taken pains to prove, no one says nothing so grandly as the French...
...they the only celebs proffered by the picture. Producer Charles Feldman, apparently fearful of taking a Royale drubbing on his investment, has tried to bolster the box-office potential by casting Deborah Kerr as a mocking-burred Scotswoman, Orson Welles as an enemy agent, Jean-Paul Belmondo as a Foreign Legionnaire and George Raft as himself...