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...Supreme Commander was talking about the liberation of Paris in late August 1944, and his remark quite properly categorizes that event as a military sideshow. In this Franco-American production, how, ever, the liberation is celebrated as a military epic, the greatest victory of the Gallic spirit since Roland held the pass at Roncesvalles...
...CHAMADE, by Francoise Sagan. Another swift vignette of autumnal love in Paris, turned out with crisp economy by a Gallic miniaturist...
Fahrenheit 451 may not prove to be the flash point of the average moviegoer, but it should work up a gentle glow among the many admirers of Director Truffaut. Filming for the first time in English, he loses nothing but one elegant Gallic pun-in the original scenario the French words for "book men" and "free men" are combined in a portmanteau phrase: les hommes-livres. Filming for the first time in color, he employs it with admirable tact to contrast God's green world with man's grey life...
CACTUS FLOWER is a Gallic sex farce that not only survived the transplant from Paris, but, as deftly tended by Abe Burrows, has thrived as a long-blooming Broadway...
...CHAMADE, by Franchise Sagan. Another swift vignette of autumnal love in Paris, turned out with crisp economy by a Gallic miniaturist...