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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STOLEN KISSES. Francois Truffaut's new film is another chapter in his cinematic autobiography, a lovely souvenir of adolescence that focuses on the frantic romances and comic careers of an ebullient young man (Jean-Pierre Leaud...
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What is taking place in Poland today is the last tragic chapter in the noble history of Polish Jewry. From early in the 12th century, when German Jews sought new homes there because of persecution by the Crusaders, to the present day,' Jews have contributed much to the economic development and culture of that country. Their only reward has been a life of suffering at the hands of Poland's infamously anti-Semitic population...
...Quickwits are responding with a cynicism beyond their years. The game, of course, has rules. This year's rage is backyard rocket building, but only fools mention the rockets that blew up, assuming they ever got built. Another gaffe is to boast of having organized a local chapter of the International Flat Earth Society. Stanford rejected one such pre-Columbian after having second thoughts about his intellect. On the other hand, the Stanford authorities suggested the right tone to take when they beamed at a budding scholar who claimed that he had collected and counted 50,000 ants...
...also a chapter in Truffaut's continuing cinematic autobiography. Antoine Doinel, once again played by Jean-Pierre Léaud, is Truffaut's self-styled persona, who got banished to reform school in The 400 Blows and was spurned by his girl friend in Love at Twenty. Now, in Kisses, he is seen leaving the army after struggling to get a psychological discharge. "You can always sell ties," shrugs his commanding officer, adding hopefully: "I hope we never meet again." His girl friend's father fixes him up with a cushy job as a hotel night clerk...