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...started with several hats and "one dress, but a tasteful dress." added sweaters, and within five years had made Maison Chanel a fashion house to reckon with. Coco introduced the tricot sailor frock and the pullover sweater, unearthed wool jersey from its longtime service as underwear fabric and put it to use in soft, clinging dresses. She ushered in gypsy skirts, embroidered silk blouses and accompanying shawls. Even then, Chanel clothes were as high-priced as any Paris couturier's; but only Chanel delighted in having her styles copied -and made accessible at low cost to millions...
...Enfant Sauvage is shot in black and white, and Truffaut frequently uses an iris diaphragm rather than a dissolve to end a scene. There are few close-ups in the film; most of the shots, in fact, are full-length portraits: Itard standing in his frock coat at his writing desk, his housekeeper pouring milk into a white china bowl, the boy drinking water at a window. The visual effect is to capture the period charm of engravings. By discovering conventions and exploiting them, Truffaut is inviting us to share in an artistic is trust with him. That he succeeds...
...request that he remain anonymous, the freshman in mention discovered that several hundred years before a totally undistinguished poet had resided for a term in his study. He immediately charged out every volume of the man's work in Widener Library (two). purchased a third or fourth-hand frock coat from Joe Keezer's on Mass Ave., and for the duration of the winter did become that poet. Devotees of the Harvard Union dining hall three or four years ago will recall him striding through food lines, volumes under arm, or rising without warning from the table...
Actor Truffaut, decked in frock coat and silk hat, is a splendid blend of pomposity and curiosity. But Director Truffaut is lethargic and clinical. The Wild Child is never touched by his characteristic warmth; its ironies are all predictable, save the final one: this is Truffaut's crudest work, as if it were the first film in the canon and not the latest...
Under the shadow of a Venetian palazzo, the figure strides onstage in the regalia of an affluent Victorian gentleman -top hat, frock coat, gloves and cane...