Word: chantal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vague, has had a troubled career resembling Lang's and Welles's. The films after Les Cousins grew increasingly serious, tended toward morbidity, and lost both money and the critics. In order to keep working, he made cheap melodramas, among them Le Tigre Se Parfum Avec Dynamite and Marie-Chantal Contre Docteur Kah, to list the two most outlandish titles. Le Scandale, financed by Universal, is the fifth and perhaps last: it enabled him to make a more ambitious dramatic film (Les Biches) which has restored him to critical favor and substantially renewed his career...
...comparison of Les Cousins with Marie-Chantal (you can see it dubbed on TV as The Blue Panther every so often) reveals the latter film ludicrously written in contrast yet wildly more mature stylistically, a riveting blend of calculated camera movement in sensual decor with brilliantly cut sequences of action employing the zoom lens. Far from stagnating in the world of commercial mystery films, Chabrol has emerged the finest new stylist in France, far superior to Truffaut (whose Bride Wore Black pales in comparison), and in many ways surpassing Godard and Resnais...
...listless Carmen. Michael McKean did the Envoy with excellent comic precision, although by playing it gay he threw the production over the edge, as far as this reviewer was concerned. Only Lisa Kelley successfully conveyed something of the balances and conflicts in Genet's many strange worlds. But as Chantal the revolutionary she comes on late and, on opening night, the battle had been lost long before...
...plot--it either limps or goes sprinting out of sight--concerns a young man (Jean-Pierre Leaud) who falls in love with a girl (Chantal Goya) and for various reasons has a hard time keeping up with her. One reason is that Miss Goya enjoys a lesbian relationship with one of her roommates. Another is that she's a yeh-yeh girl just breaking into echo-chambers and the Top 40. But the most important reason is that Miss Goya is a bitch goddess: she looks like a captivating thirteen-year-old and possesses the assurance of a woman...
...Coca-Cola, is a cubistic jigsaw-puzzle picture of the go-go generation. In his usual abrupt abstract style, Godard scatters the screen with dissociated pieces of plot: a Marx-marked high school dropout (Jean-Pierre Leaud) meets and mates a Coke-stoked rock-'n'-roll belter (Chantal Goya), but not long after dies in an absurd accident, leaving the girl to face an amateur abortion performed with a curtain rod. The puzzle is further complicated by irrelevancies: switchblade suicide, lesbian interlude, subway murder, movie within a movie within a movie that culminates in a very dirty joke...