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Godard dates his political conversion quite specifically: the rebellion in the streets of Paris, May 1968, and his films before that date now qualify as bourgeois garbage. In the aftermath of May, Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin formed the Dziga-Vertov group, a revolutionary film collective (that for a long...
Louis Malle traveled to India with different expectations. After realizing the limitations of his bourgeois concerns with upper-middle-class love affairs, he divorced his wife and left France torn by the political riots of May 1968. Financed by the British Broadcasting Corporation and given a free reign by the...
The entire situation gets ever more ridiculous. In a wicked, fence-straddling about-face, Bertolucci allows Paul to act obnoxious even while he visually supports Paul's view of things. Nothing holds any people in the film together except for the pursuit of private obsessions, and Bertolucci's Paris is...
Bourgeois decadence department: On Tuesday night the members of the Harvard Club of Boston got a treat. After polishing off their chocolate mousse at a black-tie banquet the members watched two fighters mix it up in a ring set up in the dining room.
The phrase rings of Erich Fromm's description of the orgiastic union: "the world outside disappears, and with it the feeling of separateness from it." The ecstasy -- in Fromm as in the film--is always ephemeral. The public that filled Time's letter columns and opposed the film on moral...