Word: delannoy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie's treatment of the political maneuvering is unconvincingly hazy, and its melodrama slow. But plenty is left of the love affair, and Director Jean (God Needs Men) Delannoy makes it no less romantic than it was in Mayerling...
Miracle look artless and crude. Director Jean (Symphonic Pastorale) Delannoy can also take credit for the rare cinematic feat of evoking deep religious feeling without sugar & molasses. His constant perception of the story's human values, and Actor Fresnay's superbly sensitive playing make God Needs Men the best foreign-language film to reach the U.S. in at least a year...
...offend Roman Catholics, officials at last fall's Venice Film Festival refused at first to show the picture. But though God Needs Men ventures into the same delicate area as Director Rossellini's controversial Miracle (TIME, Feb. 26), Catholics apparently found nothing to object to in Director Delannoy's handling of the theme. After the Venice officials reconsidered their ban, God Needs Men took a grand prize at the festival, later won a special award from the International Catholic Film Office...