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...However Arabic or Russian the orchestrations, Jarre's music fit the plangent mood of French postwar pop: the mordant, worldly-wise chansons of Gilbert Bécaud, Marguerite Monnot, Jacques Brel, Charles Aznavour. The simple melodies follow a clear ascending or descending line, and sound either inevitable or predictable, depending on the extent of the listener's fondness for the form. Jarre didn't write pop songs, exactly; "Lara's Theme" was his one Top 40 hit. But the sound was marketable in movies, and after Lawrence, Jarre's tinny, tinkly, discordant music was in high demand by directors searching...
There is an appearance by the singer-composer Gilbert Becaud, whose most famous composition gave this film its American title. His presence seems a wholly unnecessary novelty, and his songs are performed on the sound track with no-nonsense billing in the subtitles. "Sung by Gilbert Bécaud" flashes on the screen every time a scrap of mel ody is played. It is not the sort of thing to brag about...
...VOLTS-GILBERT BÉCAUD (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.).* Sizzling Frenchman Bécaud, who often composes his own songs, sings his recent splash hit, Sound and Sea, in this international variety show. Also featured: Singers João Gilberto (Brazil) and Lill Lindfors (Sweden...
MONTE CARLO . . . C'EST LA ROSE (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Princess Grace conducts a tour of her tiny domain, accompanied by British Comedian Terry-Thomas and French Singers Framboise Hardy and Gilbert Bécaud...
...Good Will, Passion's Pilgrims) will have little difficulty in picking up the threads of the story, will be relieved to see that the parallel narratives have now begun to intertwine, making fewer different threads to follow. Mme. de Champcenais' timid affair with Sammécaud gets warmer. Haverkamp, the ambitious businessman with no resources but his brains, puts through his first big deal. Young Student Jerphanion, horrified by the Paris slums, decides to join the socialists. Murderer Quinette, still undiscovered, finds out from a detective why his crime was never reported in the newspapers...