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Pring-Wilson’s attorney, Jeffrey Denner, said his client was acting in self-defense...
...Loved Women is Bertrand (Charles Denner), a provincial French lab technician who guiltlessly pursues a life of one-night stands. Like so many of François Truffaut's melancholy comedies, this film deals with the impossibility of monogamous love: Bertrand sleeps with dozens of women because he knows there is no one woman who can offer him complete fulfillment. Eventually he writes a memoir about his exploits-a Story of Adele H. in reverse, one might say-and dies happy...
This time there is no struggle and no enlightenment: Bertrand is just a flip Don Juan-a stock comic figure who resolves all of life's dilemmas by retreating to adolescence. Despite Denner's amusingly self-effacing performance, it is hard to care about him or, worse still, the women he damages along his selfish way. Truffaut's vulnerability and sweet tragic sense are strangely absent here; this film is just depressing...
...film to expect it not only to depict history but enhance it. At the start of his new movie, Claude Lelouch seems about to make just such an attempt. And Now My Love begins like a silent movie. In the early years of the century, a Parisian cameraman (Charles Denner) is trying out his marvelous new movie machine in a park. He focuses on a lovely woman (Marthe Keller). In the series of fast cuts that follows, he marries her, she becomes pregnant, and he gets news of the birth of his daughter moments before he is killed during...
Twenty-five years later the daughter, now grown up, meets a boy, both played again by Keller and Denner. The meeting itself is extraordinary, a moment of strangeness and promise. It occurs on board a train loaded with passengers who are the devastated victims of concentration camps. The familiarity of the scene, the desolation of the faces, is awful. Yet Lelouch challenges our usual response by having a radio play Glenn Miller's Moonlight Serenade in the background. The song throws the scene into starker relief. The passengers are revealed not as victims but as survivors being ushered into...