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CESAR AND ROSALIE. For some reason Gallic romances seem to require an inordinate amount of automobile travel, and the principals in this soggy little love story are forever wheeling off in passionate pursuit of one another. Cesar (Yves Montand) is a buoyant businessman, a self-made success, enamored of Rosalie (Romy Schneider), who loves him and yields to him but always, somehow, eludes him. David (Sami Frey), who looks like Warren Beatty after two weeks on a health farm, is a cartoonist also in love with Rosalie. At first dazzled by her two determined suitors, Rosalie scurries between them, settling...
...never get the chance to look for more specimens. In September the government expropriated the area for a missile and artillery range for the French army. Defense Minister Michel Debré has promised that the government will continue to allow digs at Canjuers, but Thomel admits to a certain Gallic skepticism. "The army will be shooting near the site," he says, "and the soldiers will pilfer the beds and keep or sell fossils as souvenirs...
...thriller that appeared in 1964, Jean-Pierre Melville's work has been little seen in this country. He himself popped up in Godard's Breathless, where he played a celebrated film maker giving an interview to Jean Seberg. In France, in deed, he is celebrated for melancholy Gallic exercises in gangsterism, American style...
...Valk is a plebeian with little formal education. But he reads a lot, looks hard at the world and thinks fast. He also has a blonde French wife who provides Gallic insight and underdone foie de veau, modifying her husband's tendency toward Dutch stolidity. In short, Van der Valk is the perfect medium through which Freeling, himself a multilingual, self-educated, cultural nomad, can express his own sharp-eyed perceptions of life. While getting on with the crime, readers are treated to idioms in several languages and quotes from the likes of Horace and Kipling. They are also...
Even while it was going on, the Long March lay on the edge of myth. No one has done much to reduce its mythic content. In her own book called The Long March, Simone de Beauvoir made it an elaborate Gallic metaphor for revolution, while André Malraux (who got Mao to tell him about it in 1965) used it, in his non-biography An-timemoires, mostly as an excuse for some very elegant prose. Dick Wilson, an editor of the Singapore Straits Times, has modestly tried to assemble a straightforward account based on Chinese sources, scrupulously avoiding conjecture...