Word: belmondo
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...dreary Normandy resort town, Jean Gabin maintains a precarious perch on the wagon. Once France's biggest lush, Gabin has sworn off the stuff since a dark moment of the war and he hasn't wavered since. But into this town stumbles Jean-Paul Belmondo, Gabin's heir apparent to the drinking title...
...Winter," a 1962 film having its "Boston premiere" at the Brattle this week. The plot's a natural; so is the film. On top of some solid, straightforward direction (by Henri Verneuil) and a lush background score, "Monkey in Winter" has the slickest combination of all--Gabin and Belmondo...
Country Calves. These stars, with few exceptions, are Europeans: Michael Caine, Jeanne Moreau, Julie Christie, Maggie Smith, Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Marcello Mastroianni, Omar Sharif, Anouk Aimee, David Hemmings, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Rita Tushingham, Melina Mercouri, Ingrid Thulin, Tom Courtenay, Albert Finney, Susannah York, Samantha Eggar, Sarah Miles, Terence Stamp, David Warner, Alan Bates?and the Beatles. Hollywood's contribution to the constellation is insignificant: James Coburn, Walter Matthau, Lee Marvin are big boys at the box office now, but for some curious reason, Hollywood has yet to bring on a new and better class...
Though none of these actors and actresses look as if they were made in the Max Factory, they manage to seem definitely male and distinctly female. Belmondo, for instance, has a wrinkly-crinkly, all-squeezed-together-in-the-middle sort of face that appears to have just been released from a duck press. Caine has a soft little mouth that seems to be slowly crawling away and a hollow in his chest that a girl could sip champagne from. And Oskar Werner ?well, actually he's as straight as they come, but at first glance people some times wonder...
That sly smile . . . that wavy hair: is it Bogey? Belmondo? Would you believe Mao Tse Tung...