Word: gallicisms
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...Montpellier and hoisted a separatist flag, consisting of a cross on a wine red field. A group of French commandos broke into warehouses in Marseille and destroyed 450,000 gal. of Italian wine. Countless other barrels were sloshed into the Canal du Midi at Béziers, in a Gallic version of the Boston Tea Party...
...Brel himself shows up looking appropriately dour, cigarette hanging from the corner of his mouth in the accepted Gallic manner. He slouches over a beer and sings one of his best-known tunes, Ne Me Quittes Pas, which we might translate roughly as "Please Don't Split." This is the first number after the film's intermission. It would have been more appropriate, even more poignant, if it had come just before...
...poem of force," French Philosopher Simone Weil once called the Iliad in what must be regarded as howling Gallic understatement. On Homer's blood-drenched plains of Troy, spears cleave through a man's tongue and shatter his teeth or pierce an eye socket. Swords sever heads. Armies mow down opposing ranks like "a line of reapers formed, who cut a swath/ in barley or wheat." Death spreads across the pages like a pool of ink-"numbing darkness," "unending night." Awesome griefs are recorded. Hair gets torn, ashes smeared. But when a mourning fast is proposed, the answer...
...recall the voyages of Haddock's pirate ancestor Red Rackham on the ship Unicorn, and, finally, down to the bottom of the Caribbean in a sharklike submarine after Rackham's treasure. Hergé, the nom de plume of a Belgian genius named Georges Remi, who has had Gallic readers in thrall for more than 40 years, fills his small frames with marvelous detail. If he draws a 1955 Peugeot 403 or the old Geneva Airport, everything is exactly right. Occasionally he breaks out into a full-page picture recreating such things as a complete Persian miniature version...
...through political activity. The same may be said of their official pursuers up to the highest level of the French government, whose ministers and bureaucrats are as blandly indifferent to humane concerns as the anarchists. There are some good performances by Fabio Testi as the most frantic of this Gallic wild bunch, Maurice Garrel as its weariest old soldier and by Mariangela Melato as its only feminist. As usual, Chabrol directs with admirable technical dexterity...