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Euphemisms are the anesthesia of language. In France, the abbreviation R.T. stands for recueillis temporaires (temporarily taken in), a numbing term for unadoptable children. Me refuses the anesthetic and presents a painful examination of one homeless boy, François (Michel Terrazon). Shifted from institution to foster home, the ten-year-old burns his bridges before he comes to them. He commits petty crimes, plays truant, lies to his many foster parents-all because he is afraid that if they love him he will lose them, as he lost his mother...
Terrazon, an untrained actor, moves with the swagger of the truly insecure. Surrounding him are other amateurs, including a grandmother (Marie Marc) who manages to define affection in terms that François finally comprehends...
...deprived children, adult eyes watch from juvenile faces. François never completely changes; in the end, a prank turns into tragedy, and François takes a giant step backward to an institution. But if hope is dimmed it is not entirely extinguished; François is no longer a child, but neither is he unadoptable...
...minuscule cast is trapped in Frank Gilroy's anemic narrative of a boozy loser and his new-found chick. Pianist Joe Grady (Beatty) plays gigs at a downtown bar, trying to raise the fare to New York and a fresh start. Fran (Taylor) is a chorine waiting for her paramour to obtain a divorce and altar her situation. In a matter of moments, Fran and Joe become casual lovers playing for time-and losing. He keeps dicing away his savings; Mr. Right fails to come to her rescue on schedule. While they run in place, Gilroy furnishes them with...
Garros' sector, just south of the Sahara, is occupied by descendants of the same Moslem fanatics who killed General Charles George ("Chinese") Gordon in Khartoum 85 years ago. A Sudan-based outfit called the Chad National Liberation Front (FROLINAT) claims credit for the current insurrection. French-educated François Tombalbaye, the only President this ten-year-old country has ever had, dismisses the insurgency as mere banditry. In fact, it has racial and religious overtones. Moslem emirates in the north ruled Chad before the French conquest, and the black, predominantly Christian Sara tribesmen in the south were their...