Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world where broken windows heal themselves, where clouds smell of wild thyme or cinnamon sugar, and where a rectangular bedroom becomes spherical when "The Mood to Be Wooed" is played. If we find these anomalies disconcerting, it is because, as Jacques Bens points out in his afterward to the French edition, we are used to fairytales where the supernatural of flying carpets or seven-league boots is inserted in an otherwise normal world. In Vian, on the other hand, the symbolic "pianocktail," which allows one to get literally drunk on jazz, is placed in a universe that continually surprises with...
...accurately called Toni a neo-realist film eleven years ahead of its time. In a decade of pictures made in studios, it as shot entirely on location in the Midi, using local inhabitants as well as professional actors. I feels completely true to the environment and lives of immigrant French peasants. As Richard Roud puts it, "Renoir's ambition was that the public should imagine that an invisible camera had filmed various phases of a Crime passionel without the human beings involved in the action having noticed...
Toni begins with a group of immigrant entering a southern French village, and follows them through a few years of work, marriage, estrangement, friendship, death--all the processes of their lives. The setting is strongly established in the first shots (in a train); and its importance, in the characters' conversations and in the shooting style, is maintained throughout. In outdoor scenes the characters are integrated into the landscape, made part of the natural pattern. These shots of the land have a geometrical quality of which the figures are only one element...
Madison Avenue is certainly not tired of that famous three-letter word, SEX, but it is increasingly captivated by a four-letter word, LOVE. That is the name of a new line of cosmetics that has been brought out by Menley & James, a subsidiary of Smith Kline & French Laboratories. Love was in splashy four-page ads in almost every leading woman's magazine (Vogue, Redbook, Cosmopolitan) and in regional editions of LIFE. At a time when advertising is bolder and nuder than ever, the multimillion-dollar campaign leaves little to the imagination...
...People are always afraid of bad taste," says French Writer-Director Jacques Demy (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg). Demy certainly isn't. He sprinkles it like contaminated pixy dust over little film fairy tales. The Model Shop, Demy's first film made in the U.S., continues along in the same airy tradition...