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...spirit. Maritza is supposed to represent the wildness that Main longs for, the last chance of his life. From everything Director John Korty (The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman) and Writer Lawrence Marcus (Petulia) show us, she is as liberating as Lucrezia Borgia. Maritza gobbles fruit and chats about Django Reinhardt while Alex makes love to her; she also has a hard time staying out of jail for assaulting another bedmate. No prize himself, Alex is ever aware of his paramour's wanderlust; during bouts of passion, he keeps her handcuffed to the bedstead...
Next week Sandy's will feature Stephane Grappelli, a violinist from Django Reinhardt's great bands. But you have some time to think that one over...
...jesuitical casuistry of who was right and who was wrong, it is not the social background we tend to remember--and Malle may be reproaching us for this forgetfulness in his opening and closing quotes--but images: Lucien riding his bicycle down the hill at breakneck speed while Django Reinhardt plays guitar at breakneck speed on the soundtrack; France playing Beethoven or rising from bathing in a stream, like a figure out of myth; the grandmother opening herself up to nature at last, as she bends down with the eye of benevolent intelligence to watch a cricket on a leaf...
...most important influences on his own style. However, he was never able to adapt himself to the slide technique, and instead developed a multinote style which combines the intensity of the slide technique of James with complexity of the more improvisational jazz guitarists such as Django Reinhart and Charlie Christian...
...they know I'm not kidding out there. Blues is a message, and they're getting it." The message comes through in long, twisting melodic lines and canny phrasing that betray King's relatively sophisticated influences: Count Basie's longtime vocalist Jimmy Rushing, Jazz Guitarists Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian. But his emotional essence is the pain, stoicism and earthy humor of an ancient heritage...