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...CARABINIERS. When he is not behaving like a brat, Director Jean-Luc Godard can be quite grown up, as he once demonstrated with Breathless and now shows again with this dry, abrasive antiwar film that is at once a satire of post-war Europe and a subtle dissection of aggression...
...CARABINIERS. When he is not behaving like a brat, Director Jean-Luc Godard can be quite grown up, as he once demonstrated with Breathless and now shows again with this dry, abrasive antiwar film that is at once a satire of postwar Europe and a subtle dissection of aggression...
...Pompidous entertain frequently, both at large receptions at the Matignon and at dinner parties for twelve in their apartment, where Pompidou holds forth on everything from his favorite nouvelle vague film director (Jean-Luc Godard) to his favorite poet (Baudelaire, whose work he never reads "without emotion"). In fact, Pompidou ranks somewhere among the literati himself, having begun work on two novels ("It would be entertaining to be a writer") and edited a widely used anthology of French poetry...
Under Bazin's guidance, Truffaut quickly stabilized and began to write film criticism for Cahiers du Cinéma, the recondite French movie journal that then housed such nouvelle vague cineasts as Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol. Truffaut proved so corrosive a critic that in 1958 he was banned from the Cannes Film Festival and forced to snipe at targets he could not see. What he could see, however, was Madeleine Morgenstern, daughter of a film executive whose products had received Truffaut's hardest knocks. After they were married, Truffaut continued his criticism, this time...
...even his most devoted fans can be as fascinated with Godard as Godard is with himself. His segment shows him behind a camera, droning on about an inspiration he had to demonstrate the war's bestiality. He planned to photograph a woman's nude body, then show what the impact of bullets would do to it. The project was abandoned, he claims, because it required too much research. "I'm full of ideas," Godard concludes, "but ideas aren't much...