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...Jean Delannoy, 100, directed the forbidden-love hit La symphonie pastorale, from the André Gide novel, in 1946; the following decade, his precise dramas became the butt of young turks like Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard who formed France's New Wave. Back when the international audience got much of its fun, sex and sentiment from Italian movies, Dino Risi, 91, provided robust entertainment in many genres. Among his 80-some features were 17 starring Vittorio Gassman, most prominently the cynical social fable Il Sorpasso / The Easy Life and the blind-officer-on-a-toot drama Profuma di Donna...
Though he fell out of favor with critics--and the public--in the 1960s, French filmmaker Jean Delannoy directed nearly 50 films during his career, including critical successes such as L'Eternel Retour and Dieu a Besoin des Hommes. In 1954 he was famously felled by a scathing review in Cahiers du Cinéma by critic (and later filmmaker) François Truffaut, who accused Delannoy of clinging to an antiquated and pedestrian style. Yet in 1946, before Truffaut's time, Delannoy earned a Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his most notable work, La Symphonie Pastoral...
Anticlerical Novelist Roger Peyrefitte scandalized postwar France in 1945 with Les Amitiés Particulières, the story of a homosexual love affair between two boys in a Roman Catholic boarding school. As filmed by French Director Jean Delannoy, This Special Friendship turns out to be both poignant and disturbing. Its impact depends not on lubricity-the schoolboy crush at the center of the story is idealistic and unconsummated. It is based on Delannoy's deft projection of the human agony behind the cry of St. Paul: "For the good that I would...
Director Jean Delannoy gets the most out of the devious alleys of Paris. The murder scenes are particularly effective, showing only the killer's hands nervously clutching his belt as he awaits his victim. Delannoy's avoidance of full-face close-up shots emphasizes the realistic tone of the film...
Inspector Maigret (French). Jean Gabin keeps on his toes as Georges Simenon's flawless flatfoot, and Director Jean Delannoy's camera is a superb shadow...