Word: ferrand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clermont-Ferrand, France...
...Clermont-Ferrand, France...
Eliot, who now plays basketball for the French city of Clermont-Ferrand in the European basketball league, left Kenny a tough reputation to live up to. Anyone in our neighborhood who saw both brothers play, said the second was as good, maybe better, than the first. Whatever competition there may have been between the Wolfe brothers has all been channelled into a cooperative team-spirited relationship...
...Sorrow and the Pity, Marcel Ophuls' documentary cross-section of Clermont Ferrand residents who lived through Occupied France, is, in the final analysis, a noble failure. It brings us up close to varying degrees of complicity and guilt and some causes for it, but the sheer bulk of its interviews and newsreel clips not only occasionally deadens, but gives the audience a misconceived faith in the completeness of Ophuls' very selective vision. Documentary talents like Ophuls' are hard to find, however, and they're needed desperately to slake a thirst for social commentary rarely touched by fiction filmmakers...
...string of fine films booked into the Harvard Brattle chain. An already legendary 1970 documentary by Marcel Ophulus (son of Max) it examines life in WW 11'S occupied France with a Collection of interview with national leaders, spies and various inhabitants Of the industrial city of Clermont-Ferrand. The historical view the film Presents may be fragmentary, even misleading; but the human range covered is Powerfully complete. We not only hear heroic, week, tragic actions explained, but get some inkling of what these actions meant to the rest of the lives of the participants...