Word: blier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately, other transitions are not so effective. The characters of Pyotr Petrovitch Luhzin and Arkady Ivanovitch Svidrigailov, who ranks with Smerdyakov of The Brother's Karamazov as Dostoevsky's most frightening embodiments of evil, are merged into one person, Antoine Monestier, played by Bernard Blier. Blier handles the job fairly well, but fails to capture Svidrigailov's essense, largely because of the necessary omission of the dream sequences which are so important in the novel...
...dirty little game. She seduces the chauffeur (Daniel Gélin). who seduces the maid (Jocelyne Mercier), who thereupon becomes a pliable witness to all sorts of things she imagines she has seen. In the end it takes some very clever police work by a marvelously grimacious flic (Bernard Blier) to bring the criminals to book-but then, come to think of it, what crime have they committed...
...film's simplicity is its greatest charm. Virtue, that is, the teacher, triumphs, and since he is not stuffy about triumphing, it is pleasant to watch. Bernard Blier plays the teacher at a leisurely pace, and the naturalness of his performance allows him to get away with such lines as, "I will be your companion, your guide, your friend...
...program to keep the price up. From his taxes came the money for such subsidy payments as the $3,759,000 paid to Russell Giffen of Fresno, Calif, for his 1948 grain, cotton and flax; $426,000 to the Reeds of Fort Fairfield, Me., and $216,000 to Rudolph Blier of Van Buren, Me. for his 1948 potatoes...