Word: gallicisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIVE-DAY LOVER. The year's funniest import, a gay Gallic comedy of promiscuities in which Director Philipe de Broca, with the inspired collaboration of Comedian Jean-Pierre Cassel (The Love Game), assembles charming wisps of humor, twists them into a pretty little cord -and strangles every libertin (and libertine) in Paris...
...Liaisons Dangerouses (Astor) is an offense against taste, a baldly commercial celebration of the Gallic religion of disgust. At the same time it is a wickedly funny comedy of promiscuities à la franqaise. The mixture seems sure to produce a succès de scandale...
Auspitz: How's that for a line full of Gallic insight: "Victor's like a butterfly: you must take...
Since his 1959 Manhattan visit, Montand has annexed, but not really acquired, some English. His two English numbers are close to ho-hum. But for the rest of the evening, this Gallic son of Aphrodite is mmmmm-nnnnnn...
Patrons of A Shot in the Dark must be prepared to swallow some dialogue with the rugged flavor of vin ordinaire, and the end of the play tends to dribble away. But most of this Gallic murder-comedy is estate-bottled, kept at a steady bed-and-courtroom temperature and poured to a farce-connoisseur's taste...