Word: freshet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suffers from a confusion of values, which is likely to outrage rather than amuse most moviegoers. Barry Fitzgerald contributes a brief but telling bit as a richly impertinent, elfish little cable-car gripman (conductor). But despite his efforts, this idyll of young love resembles not so much a spring freshet as a saucer of milk left to sour by an ungrateful...
Perhaps the German High Command had decided that Brittany would have to go. Brittany was not heavily held, and the deadly Allied air superiority made reinforcement impossible. U.S. armor passed over & around the defense like a freshet foaming over rocks. Inside his once-vaunted "wall" the enemy was incredibly soft...
...sing as if they were possessed of seven devils and a Trotskyite. They often sing loudly in They Met in Moscow. But the picture's lyrical ebullience, its naively intense people, its fresh landscapes combine to make something rare in cinema-an unaffected pastoral comedy, spontaneous as a freshet, natural as a pail of warm milk...
Everything but Mammy. The Song of Bernadette lacks the razor-edged realism, the urgent poetry, the freshet-like creative vitality of great cinema or great religious vision. Sometimes its too high cinematic and religious gentility betrays itself awkwardly, as in the efforts of the cast to say maman (French for "mamma"), which is pronounced practically every way except mammy. But within its limits, most of The Song of Bernadette is reverent, spiritually forthright, dignified. The photography is continuously elegant. Most of the cast (especially Gladys Cooper as a Mistress of Novices) plays with unusual soberness and intensity...