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Philippe de Broca, who made King of Hearts, comes to the Boston Center for the Arts this weekend to show two of his films: Chere Louise, starring Jeanne Moreau, and The Magnificent One, with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jacqueline Bisset. The latter one is billed as a James Bond spoof. (But James Bond movies always seem sort of spoofy by themselves, don't they?) De Broca has come to Boston as a personal favor to Paul Michaud, formerly with West European Studies, now running his association in connection with the Boston Center. Chere Louise, Feb. 8, at 8; The Magnificent...
...Night. Another sweet movie by Truffaut, this may be more autobiographical than the others (400 Blows was the first in the line), as he plays himself. Starring Jean-Pierre Leaud, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jacqueline Bisset, and Valentina Cortese, it is about the making of a movie called "Meet Pamela." Truffaut is perhaps too enamored, wistfully so, of his material--movie-making comes off as an experiment in building T-group togetherness. The actors live harder than the parts they play, high all the time off the magic of movie-making. The movie itself is pieced together out of bits...
...experience (Jean-Pierre Aumont); and the older leading woman who drinks too much and muddles her scenes (Valentina Cortèse). There is the young leading woman, an American who has just recovered from a nervous breakdown and is making her first film in over a year (Jacqueline Bisset); the film groupie who starts out as a script girl and ends up running off with the stunt man (Dani). Also present are the director's dedicated, sensible assistant (Nathalie Baye), who muses: "I would give up a guy for a film-but I would never give up a film...
...scrambled, seem wonderfully fulfilling. The general air of celebration is seductive, but it dulls from time to time the film's cunning edge of irony. When Truffaut reassures a distraught Jean-Pierre Léaud that "people like us are only happy in our work," or when Jacqueline Bisset risks a secure marriage to spend the night with Léaud-for reasons that seem both unconvincingly melodramatic and obscure-the movie begins to sound a little defensive and boosterish, like a chorus of There's No Business like Show Business...
...modest rented apartment in the center of Paris. When he sees friends-like Fellow Film Makers Jacques Rivette or Claude Berri-he sees them at home over a quiet dinner. Divorced from his wife, he has been seen in company with Catherine Deneuve and, most recently, Jacqueline Bisset. "It is apparent from his films that he considers women an important part of his life," says an acquaintance. "But he is so terribly discreet that one never knows who his current interest...