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Unlike its predecessors, this new grand tour is never moralistic, never theological, always entertaining. The sins, presented as vignettes, are made by six groups of the finest cinema talent of France and Italy, and the framework for their presentation is a carnival doll representing each. A glib barker, Gerard Philippe, goads the crowds to knock each doll off its pedestal, and as each falls, the scene fades into the filmlets...
...Gerard Philipe, as the raffish Fan Fan, is quite a match for his leading lady in scene stealing. Lacking her more obvious props, he forges ahead with the urbane skill that has made him one of France's top actors. Those who saw Devil In The Flesh will wonder at his transformation. No more the scrawny, introspective adolescent, Philipe is a virile and powerful hero, dispatching his enemies with a grace and athletic elan that has not been seen since the days of the elder Fairbanks...
...rally was a banquet for 500 sponsored by Haarlem's Jewish Recreation Association, where the winners were announced: Driver Gerard van Praag and Passenger Max Gosschalk, in a German Volkswagen, who had only 36 points against them...
...subtlety. Even in contrasting the joy of the Armistice with the pathos of the young woman's death, the film skirts mawkishness and makes the bereavement of the lover more deeply felt. But above all, the intensity of Devil in the Flesh is due to the performances of Gerard Philipe and Micheline Presle. Every expression and intonation is eloquent if the anguish of a boy struggling to cope with a man's problem or of a woman too old for her lover. Though the minor portrayals, particularly of the boy's tolerant father are flawless, it is the interpretations...
Cossio does not mention his chief innovation: a purely arbitrary use of perspective to create a crackling composition that shines, in Poet Gerard Manley Hopkins' phrase, like "shook foil." By his practice of boldness within bounds, Cossio may be opening a new chapter in the history of ecclesiastical...