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...common thing to say about the late Fernand Léger that he was the artist of the machine age-but he was not entirely a man of his time. He knew poverty as a child, was gassed in World War I, had to flee before the invading Nazis in World War II. But there is little of death or destruction in his work, and if he ever knew despair, he never showed it. Léger so reveled in form and color that it was as if he had lived in a world without a single shadow...
...their supposed meeting of a year ago. He pours forth detail after detail, while the camera modulates between the actual present and the past conjured up by X's words. A almost never breaks her mysterious silence and never tells X that she remembers him even when they flee the hotel together to escape the dire presence of M. Did they meet, or didn't they? Even Resnais and Robbe-Grillet don't agree on that, nor is there any reason why they should. Ambiguity, after all, only presents difficulty to the person who wants to resolve it. Quite clearly...
Since 1955, 3,300 doctors have fled to the West, along with 50,000 other professional men and students. A trickle of escapes continues, despite the fact that anyone suspected of planning to flee is arrested on charges of Republikflucht (escaping the Republic). A 78-year-old East German summed up the prevalent mood of East Germany in a bitter letter to his granddaughter in the West: "When I die I want to be cremated and have my ashes thrown in the Elbe River. It's the only way to get out of here...
...while there is a marvelous incoherence to it all. The slobs and the ridiculously gorgeous girls they collect (Elsa Martinelli, Antonella Lualdi, Anna Maria Ferrero, Mylene Demongeot, Rosanna Schiaffino) flee through the city in a frantic chase sequence, with nothing after them except howling boredom. They start a fight, steal some money, drive somewhere, wreck a bar, help some urchins steal an airplane wing for scrap, impulsively bleed for a blood bank. Eventually the loafer who winds up with the money bribes a headwaiter to open an expensive restaurant after quitting time, and grandly blows a casual acquaintance...
...life, German-born Jan Müller knew few moments of tranquillity. When he was ten, the Nazis arrested his father for campaigning against Hitler, and though friends managed to secure his release through bribery, the elder Müller realized that he and his family had to flee. The Müllers went to Prague, only to find the city overburdened with refugees already. For Jan Müller, life became one long search for a home-in Switzerland, in Amsterdam, in Paris. When World War II broke out, the French interned the boy as a German; when...