Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Central sophomore. "They are supposed to keep the peace, but they push us around too much. If you want to stand on the sidewalk and look at somebody, the guards push us back." Cried a grey-haired woman: "Hey, kid, why don't you keep quiet?" Replied the boy: "Because I don't want to. It's a free country, lady...
...into this were-world has slouched a new sort of creature: the cave-chested, pout-lipped, black-jacketed hero of such pictures as Rock All Night ("Some have to dance . . . some have to kill!"), Reform School Girl ("Boy-hungry wildcats gone mad!"). The teen-spleen movies, following the monster epic's formula of low-budget and low brain-wattage, are packing in the same audiences...
...really several worlds," says Author André Dhôtel at the outset of this wistful, wonderfully comic tale. His young hero, Gaspard Fontarelle, is born to a resolutely matter-of-fact world, the sleepy, stodgy French resort village of Lominval. But all about Lominval, as the young boy grows up, is the dark, beckoning world of the Ardennes forest. And Gaspard himself is marked from birth as another-worldling. At his christening, thunder rumbles in the distance, and a panicked cat scratches the notary's wife. Calamities hound the sweet, shy child-a deer hunter's slug...
...villain of the piece is Gaspard's aunt, put in charge of the boy because his parents are unsolid citizens who ragtag about the countryside peddling neckties. A mightily mundane soul, the aunt has lofty plans for Gaspard-was not one of his ancestors mayor of Lominval, and another chief of the town's wolf-exterminating brigade? But the never-never land claims the boy; sent into the forest to gather mushrooms, he is soon lost to Lominval and launched on a mad, careering plunge of adventure...
Gaspard befriends a runaway boy who says he is searching for a lost homeland, but it soon turns out that the boy is really a girl. Plagued by an evil servant and a lunatic film producer, aided by an addled deaf boy and a family of wandering musicians, Gaspard and the girl search for the vanished "territory" of her childhood. Because this is a fairy tale, they find it, and it proves to be the wandering carnival world of Gaspard's parents, a world where the horizon "retreats unceasingly in time and space . . . and where we never find beauty...