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...BRIDE WORE BLACK. Revenge is sweet, bitter, salty and sour in François Truffaut's poetic evocation of an idée fixe. Jeanne Moreau is the woman with the idée, and the men who killed her husband are the ones who get fixed in a series of alternately comic and eerie murders...
...FRENCH, by François Nourissier; THE AMERICAN CHALLENGE, by J.J. Servan-Schreiber. France's cultural achievements and sophisticated tastes, say these two candid Frenchmen, mask crumbling institutions and outdated attitudes that must be changed if the country is to avert disaster...
...BRIDE WORE BLACK. François Truffaut pays a loving and witty tribute to Alfred Hitchcock as he spins the sardonic story of a widow (Jeanne Moreau) bent on wreaking bloody vengeance on her husband's killers...
...FRENCH, by François Nourissier, THE AMERICAN CHALLENGE, by J.J. Servan-Schreiber. Two perceptive and plain-spoken Frenchmen examine ailing France and the cantankerous French spirit and reach the same conclusion: unless attitudes change and institutions are revitalized, a debacle is certain...
What the visitor in fact sees, when he first passes through the huge, wrought-iron gates, is a palace that seems to the sophisticated eye merely a blend of French and Italian architectural styles. The chateau's peaked roofs, developed by France's François Mansart are coupled with an Italianate dome reminiscent of St. Peter's. The entrance vestibule, decorated with Tuscan columns, leads into an 88-ft.-long white oval Grand Salon circled by arched French windows and crowned with stucco caryatids...