Word: brasseur
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Strongest blast came from Belgian Minister for External Trade Maurice Brasseur, who declared: "We are not convinced that the British have attacked the real problem, which is the imbalance of their foreign trade. Others share our skepticism." What Britain's trading partners want, among other things, is more deflation to curb domestic spending. They feel that, in effect, the British have been living high on other people's money-the world's sterling deposits with Britain. As one economist put it, the British must "tighten their own belts instead of somebody else's"-even...
...Tempt the Devil. Over a midnight snack, lush Marina Vlady mulls over legal problems with her lawyer-lover, Pierre Brasseur. She has recently disposed of her wealthy husband, neatly pinned the murder on his nurse-mistress. But things aren't working out according to plan. "I wish I hadn't bothered with the serum," she pouts. Then, "Oh well . . . next time." As a girl whose Mona Lisa face masks the soul of a Borgia, Actress Vlady almost turns Devil into an elegant spoof of French justice. Brasseur, too, seems drolly aware that Justice is a lady...
...manages to convince the audience that the man really wants to escape, much less arouse our sympathy. Ballochet, the stock bespectacled "intellectual" who worships the Corporal, is abysmally parodied by Claude Rich, who marches forth to death like those two poor souls in the opening of Stalag 17. Claude Brasseur's part as another crony is never clearly defined in the script, and the actor avails himself of the consequent opportunity to draw pay for doing nothing...
Though few daily newspaper readers have ever heard of it, one of the world's most respected news services is a tiny organization called Agence Europe. The nine men who gathered in Luxembourg's Hotel Brasseur cafe to herald the service's tenth anniversary last week constitute the entire staff. Ever since they were hired, they have surveyed the same un-romantic-sounding beat: Europe's Common Market. But by their authoritative reporting of the political and economic experiments that are changing Europe, they have made the daily blue-green bulletins of Agence Europe required reading...
...Unfortunately, Moviemaker Dassin must also bear most of the blame for the rest, which is mildly but consistently awful. Adapted crudely from La Loi, Roger Vailland's fine Prix Goncourt novel of 1957, Hot Wind is laden with too many big European names (Gina Lollobrigida, Marcello Mastroianni, Pierre Brasseur, Paolo Stoppa, in addition to Montand and Mercouri). When not glumly stumbling over each other or aggressively hogging the camera, the actors all seem loyally determined to play down to Actress Lollobrigida's level, and with the help of the worst dubbing job since Mickey Mouse first spoke...