Word: broca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Male Companion. Movies about sex, like sex itself, thrive best on the illusion that an air of joyous improvisation covers a multitude of sins. In Companion, Director Philippe de Broca (The Five-Day Lover, The Love Game) again sets light-footed Jean-Pierre Cassel to dancing from escapade to escapade as inoffensively as a hummingbird buzzing the phlox...
...serious students of the cinema will want to probe the problems which de Broca's not-so-new film raises, problems beyond Harvey's ignorant laughter. Is Belmondo a French Marlon Brando? Or a Parisian Humphrey Bogart? Or, perhaps, a James Bond full of happy pills? Though each of these positions is defensible and, indeed, held by supposedly reputable critics, the clearest judgement must recognize Belmondo as only Belmondo, that is, Boob as Anti-Hero...
THAT MAN FROM RIO. Jean-Paul Belmondo dodges poisoned darts and mad scientists in Philippe de Broca's (The Five-Day Lover) wildly hilarious parody of Hollywood's next-earthquake-please epic...
THAT MAN FROM RIO. A wild and wacky travesty of the average film thriller, directed with way-out wit by Philippe (Th& Five-Day Lover) de Broca, from France, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo...
THAT MAN FROM RIO. De Broca and Belmondo are at it again, but this time they do better. Rio is a wild and wacky travesty of what passes for adventure in the average film thriller...