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Ostrich-Boa Hats. Born outside Paris in 1883, Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel (never called anything but Coco for "Little Pet") was orphaned at six and raised in the desolate province of Auvergne by two aunts. From them, she learned that little girls should sew, sit up straight and speak politely; for sewing, a skill that forever eluded her. Coco substituted horseback riding. From Etienne Balsan, a millionaire cavalry officer who brought her to Paris at 16, Coco acquired the habits and tastes of the wealthy. She liked them-all but the ladies' predilection for ostrich-boa-draped hats. To provide...
...unprejudiced eye can now see that Rosa Bonheur's celebrated horses do indeed rollick with inimitable vigor, a battle scene by Meissonier can be moving, a lush nude dancer by Theodore Chasseriau genuinely sensual. Many people have always felt this, but now they can admit it without seeming hopelessly unsophisticated. Taken together and seen thus, argues Director Anthony Clark, the period was the "proudest century of French painting...
...confusion: red for those influenced by the mad engineer at his game board, a benign pink for the writer-hero. The trouble is that she seems to take the hero's fantasy as seriously as he does. As in her other films (Cleo from 5 to 7, Le Bonheur), she mistakes pulp for pith and winds up only with pretension...
...Bonheur--A concise, smartly paced little picture in grand color, about a carpenter's ups and downs. Agnes Varda, who directed it, may well be the best woman moviemaker working. At the HARVARD SQUARE...
...they were introduced to press and public, and put through the excruciating ordeal of the impromptu question-answer period. Well, the press and public don't ask very intelligent questions these days, so the results were limited at best. We learned, for instance, that Agnes Varda, directress of "Le Bonheur" and "Les Creatures," is a very clever woman with a wicked sense of humor, but we hardly learned whether Agnes Varda has anything to say about film-making...