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...involve men than molds, because we sense that they are the product of men rather than molds. But Europe has been automated, too. One wonders now, how much of its former quality the mass-produced Renault has had to sacrifice; and one suspects that writer-director-producer Claude Chabrol had A Blueprint for a Successful French Film somewhere in the back of his mind while working on The Cousins...
...Chabrol has made an engrossing picture, and there are several exceptional scenes in which the Old Originality shines through. But although he uses the film medium well, and achieves a skillful montage effect at points, Chabrol offers little that is creative. Whereas the contemporary French cinema has often been artistic in its freshness (Hiroshima, Mon Amour is an outstanding example), here it is mechanized in its very "artisticness...
...Cousins (Films-Around-the-World), another immensely popular picture produced by the New Wave, is a fairly clever, mildly depressing study of France's I-got-it-beat generation. Made for $160,000 by a 27-year-old film critic named Claude Chabrol, the film offers a switch on the story of the city mouse (Jean-Claude Brialy) and the country mouse (Gérard Blain). In this case the city mouse is really a rat. Enrolled in law school, he seldom attends classes, spends his time shacking up with "can't-say-no girls," arranging for abortions...
...film direction have gone into production with full-length films, and already half a dozen of them have achieved both critical acclaim and the franc approval of the public. Among the leaders François Truffaut, 27 (The Four Hundred Blows), Alain Resnais, 37 (Hiroshima, My Love), Claude Chabrol, 27 (Le Beau Serge, The Cousins), Edouard Molinaro, 31 (Back to the Wall...