Word: clouzot
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Games seems to have been put together by a new producer-director team with old ideas. "O.K.," they might have said, "for a Name we have Simone Signoret-46 years old, French accent-let's make her the heavy in a thriller-chiller. She used to work with Clouzot, didn't she? Remember his Diabolique, about a guy spooking his wife with a faked murder? Great! Remember that other wife-spooker, Gaslight-all in a terrific Victorian house? Great! Only let's make it a terrific modern house-mod, pop, camp, the sophisticated rich, and the decadent...
Working four-week stretches in Hollywood, then zipping off to New York and Europe, he "converges" clients wherever he goes. Next week he leaves for a Swiss skiing colloquium with Irwin Shaw, Peter Viertel, Anatole Litvak, Darryl Zanuck and Henri-Georges Clouzot. He never considers himself on vacation. Once, meeting 20th Century-Fox's Buddy Adler by chance in Paris, Lazar sold him Cole Porter's Can-Can for $750,000. On another occasion, he was saving money by flying tourist class when, looking beyond the partition, he saw Spyros Skouras sitting up forward in Firstville. "I could...
...Truth (Hans Films; Kingsley-lnternational) is a half-serious attempt to make a wholly serious film starring Brigitte Bardot. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot succeeds for the most part in keeping his drama sober, although now and then he throws in a few peepshots for the skin trade. But his effort to be earnest has unstrung the tautness with which he filmed Diabolique and Wages of Fear. For its last half hour, Truth is as limp as old lettuce...
Much of the film is shocking to a viewer unused to the apparent helplessness of the defendant in a French trial. Yet Director Clouzot's somewhat muddled J'Accuse is directed at more than the Napoleonic Code. It is intended to be a reproach to a callous society. But society will seize any excuse, even tepid acting, to avoid recognizing a reproach. And while Brigitte is an adequate comedienne, her dramatic acting is in the old cowboy tradition of two emotions-hat on and hat off. Except, of course, that with BB what comes...
...brilliant new gift highlights the room of Picasso paintings and graphics that has been assembled by the Fogg, probably because the Brattle is at present screening Clouzot's Mystery of Picasso. The film gives a glimpse of Picasso's creative process; the Fogg show presents an opportunity to examine closely some of its most successful results...