Word: bourguinon
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...French cuffs of his delicate shirt, Michel Piccoli lifts the head of a slaughtered calf high above his own head. "To be, or not to be," he screams in a shrill voice. Ugo Tognazzi makes a loud farting noise, tongue between his lips, and the feast begins. Kidneys bourguinon. Kidneys bordelaise. Crayfish a la Mozart. Each dish has an identity of its own, but the diners ignore all subtlety in order to concentrate more conscientiously on their suicidal quest. Marcello Mastroianni stuffs down six clams in one bite. Grubby fingers and grubby mouths attack roasted legs of fowl so greedily...
...very favorite French films was made in 1962 by a now relatively obscure director named Serge Bourguinon. It's called Sundays and Cybele and it's playing at the Brattle. Cybele is a little girl in a home for abandoned and orphaned children and Sunday is the day she's visited by a young man who has just recovered from the bodily, but not the mental, wounds he suffered in the French Indochina wars. The friendship between the two might easily be merely touching or sentimental, but Bourguinon presents it with such range of feeling that Sundays and Cybele...
...Bourguinon made three films after Sundays and Cybele, but none has been shown recently in Cambridge. His first film is so fine that we really should get a look at his others...
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