Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film concerns an innocent small town boy, the clean-living Charles, who comes to Paris to study law and stays with his city cousin, Paul. Gerard Blain and Jean-Claude Brialy do their best to make these young men believable, but though there is somewhat more to the plot than the tale of the country mouse and the city mouse, there is not much more in the way of palpable characters...
...learn very quickly that the city cousin knows the real joys of bourgeois living, and we are given a sweeping view of his universe of pimps, party-dolls, and sham. In the midst of all this, the country cousin (who spends most of his time writing home to Mama) falls in love with a used beauty (Julliette Mayniel) who appears none-the-worse for wear. The impossible longings of Charles for this girl are well-portrayed, but the plot is foreshadowed to death. Charles loses the girl, flunks his exams, and dies. Both reality and destiny are against him. Paul...
...warmest non-Cuban supporter at the meeting of the Organization of American States that censured Cuba. As a mortified Betancourt listened by short-wave radio, Arcaya fought to water down the resolution rapping Cuba, warmly embraced Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa (who happens to be Arcaya's fifth cousin). A phone call from Caracas summoned Arcaya off the floor. "You will return a hero of the Communists but not a friend of mine," said Betancourt, who thereupon ordered Arcaya to step aside and let another delegation official sign the resolution...
...imagination has already begun to kindle. Not knowing why, she kisses a male cousin, then nervously examines pictures thrust at her by street boys. Abruptly the world is darkened. Director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, a Swedish-descended Argentine, shows his debt to Sweden's Ingmar Bergman in simple scenes that to Ana take on a cast of evil-an old woman rapping angrily on a window with her crutch, a man's black-trousered legs visible beneath a mansion gate...
...involving a little ladylike tippling at Lydia Pinkham bottles filled with gin. The Finch family streak is a good deal more serious -it is an overpowering disposition toward sanity. This is the flaw that makes Jem interrupt the boasting of a lineage-proud dowager to ask "Is this the Cousin Joshua who was locked up for so long?" And it is what compels Lawyer Atticus Finch, the children's father, to defend a Negro who is charged with raping a white woman. The rape trial, Jem's helling, and even Boo Radley are deeply involved in the irregular...