Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Live in Peace (Italian). Less detailed and less exciting to watch than Shoeshine, this film was even more striking in its pure exposition of human brotherhood (TIME...
...Prince de Beaumont, seems to many surrealists to state the problem of good & evil in its "real" terms, i.e., as a sexual, male-female equation, with symbols of profane and sacred love. Poet-Playwright-Producer Jean Cocteau, a part-time surrealist, has now transformed the tale into a film that is a wondrous spectacle for children of any language, and quite a treat for their parents...
Unfortunately, Cocteau makes about a half-hour too much of a good thing-and few things pall like a dream that cannot be shaken off. Cocteau's moody retort to this criticism is that there's just no dream to shake off: "It's a realistic film in an unreal world...
...British). Carol Reed's film bogged down in allegory, but its first half was excellent and its portrait of a night city was superb (TIME, March...
Shoeshine (Italian). A swift and deeply moving film which went far beyond most works of "social protest" in compassion, moral sensitiveness and tragic understanding (TIME, Sept...