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Oddly enough, Frenchmen are supposed to be very emotional and quick to display their feelings; you certainly wouldn't say so from The Grand Maneuver. The acting was quite stolid and spiritless. M. Philippe, alternately confident and cowed, displayed a rather narrow range of emotions, and I wished at times...
For the non-dancers Brigitte Bardot in "Come Dance With Me" is at the Brattle, and "Dark at the Top of the Stairs" is playing at the University.
The characters in the movie are about as typical as the events, except for the husband. He is, I believe, the first he-man ever to be cast as a dentist. Fairly obviously his profession considerably alienates bride Brigitte's socially minded father, but such scorn is obviously unmerited because...
The rest of the cast is perfect, especially for anyone who likes to think in black and white while watching technicolor. The villains look extraordinarily vile, except for one or two who don't seem to care one way or the other. Brigitte's father performs admirably in a comic...
All in all, the film has more than enough pit comedy to make up for any lack of subtlety, and if Brigitte's Bardot's performance is not as dramatically skillful as that of Grace Kelly in the somewhat similar Rear Window, Miss Bardot has certain other fundamental qualities that...