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Unfortunately, Kerouac lacks the verbal talent to match his passionate commitment to the truth in himself. He suffers from a breathless style and the frequent burble of "fine writing." His book must be reluctantly put down with the thought that here is another monument brave in conception but botched by clumsy chisels...
...actors were Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, the director was Jean-Luc Godard, and the movie was Breathless, which in the eight years since its release has been generally accepted by critics as a landmark in movie history. It remains a typical example of France's nouvelle vague, with its theme of alienation, its air of improvisation, its lexicon of once-bizarre techniques-fast dissolves, ricocheting cuts, grainy camera work-that are now an accepted part of the moviemakers' craft...
Vermeer or Veneer? The most prolific of modern French directors, Godard has made 14 features since Breathless-a few of them critical successes, many more of them exasperating failures. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is now paying homage to Godard with a retrospective showing of his films, including two recent works hitherto unreleased in the U.S.: Two or Three Things I Know About Her and Made in U.S.A., two disappointing works that nonetheless show flashes of incisive social satire and technical virtuosity...
Hisses & Asides. That has been true since the beginning of his film career. It was unheard of, for instance, to cut from the back of an actress' head to the back of the same head. Godard did it 18 times in Breathless. While making A Woman Is a Woman, he recalled a Chaplin dictum that comedy is life in long shot and tragedy life in closeup. So A Woman became a comedy in closeup. Cameras are supposed to record, not call attention to themselves. In My Life to Live, he had his camera swinging back and forth like...
Divorced. Jean-Paul Belmondo, 34, the French cinema's favorite boogeyman (Breathless, The Thief of Paris); and Elodie Belmondo, 31; by mutual consent; after nine years of marriage, three children; in Paris. He charged her with "a guilty relationship with a friend in Switzerland" and she accused him of "corporal relations with a well-known actress" (Ursula Andress' best notice to date...