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To compare Sa Vie Vivre with Suzie and Irma is of course heresy: the American films are in middle-brow technicolor while Godard's is in avant-garde black and white. Their endings reflect this difference: while Suzie and Irma live happily ever after, Nana dies at the end.
Tracing her death to philosophy, or sex, or confusion demands a clearer characterization than the movie offers. The philosophic explanation presents Nana as fantastically sensitive, young Nietzschean who gains fulfillment in a self-styled artistic ("Everything's beautiful") rebellion. Like the Joan of Arc she cries over in a movie...
On the other hand, William Docken as her lover Hans was overly boyish in a part Giraudoux wrote to embody the tragic predicament of man. He didn't seem to realize why he loved Ondine and only at the very end of the evening, when he dies did he grasp...
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK should probably insure its audiences with Lloyd's of London, just in case anyone dies laughing. Playwright Neil Simon's unpredictable wit, Mike Nichols' spry direction, and Robert Redford and Elizabeth Ashley's comic finesse as a pair of blissfully wacky newlyweds...
Then Stalin dies. Spring is nigh, and the screen bursts with the flux of a great thaw. Glaciers move. Oppressive ice masses give way to a life-giving socialist sun, and quick as a wink all Russia is awash with sentiment. Such devices sweep Clear Skies right to the edge...