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DEAR DETECTIVE Directed by Philippe de Broca Screenplay by Philippe de Broca and Michel Audaird...
...Director Philippe de Broca (King of Hearts), this should be the end of the line. Dear Detective is by far the worst product of a career blighted by increasingly terrible movies. Despite the presence of two fine stars, the film does not contain a single spontaneous scene; the supporting players and extras often appear to be mannequins. If there is any one alive in the movie, it is only Catherine Alric, a blonde bombshell cast in the gratuitous role of a blonde bombshell...
...Academy Awards ceremony came when this little known film upset favorite "Cousin, Cousine" to capture the Best Foreign Film Oscar. And deservedly so: "Black and White in Color" is an extraordinarily intelligent and sophisticated allegory, a thematically subtle, visually striking film in many ways reminiscent of Phillippe De Broca's anti-war fable "The King of Hearts." But while DeBroca's film represented an attack on the absurdity of war and the modern world in general, "Black and White in Color" functions not only as a broad anti-war and anti-colonialist allegory, but also as a devastating, blackly humorous...
...understand the basic atmospheric conditions of screwball humor, but he fails to enliven his combination of characters and incidents with any modern twists or new routines. He does not realize that this kind of fun cannot be created by haphazardly mixing together elements that worked well for Philippe de Broca and Preston Sturges; the essential ingredients are those the cook pulls from his own secret stock...
...Magnifique. Philip de Broca sets out to do to the spy thriller what he did to the World War I genre in King of Hearts. In America, Mel Brooks would be the likely candidate to take off on this secret agent silliness, one thinks--until one remembers that he did, with Get Smart on TV. And that's what this movie looks like at first, a French Get Smart, only with the added attraction of Belmondo's sexy grimaces and Jacqueline Bisset's--well, Jacqueline Bisset. But Brooks will joy-buzz you all night with this sort of thing (every...