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This year that policy seems wiser than ever. In the past, Lincoln Center featured new films by the creative experimenters of the art-house circuit-Bufiuel, Resnais, Kurosawa, Losey. The 1967 scene offers an old and a new Godard (Les Carabiniers, Made in U.S.A.) and a sluggish Rossellini (The Rise of Louis XIV), but otherwise gives itself over to cinematic unknowns. Unfortunately, few entries rise above mediocrity...
...grand subsidies to the arts and, most of all, by his personal distinction. Still to many a former leftist admirer, his acceptance of a government post amounted to a sellout of his principles. "How can you hear me now, Andre Malraux?" asked Film Director Jean-Luc Godard. "I am telephoning from the outside, a distant country, a free France...
Married. Jean-Luc Godard, 36, director of some of the French New Wave's most imaginative films (Breathless), and Anne Wiazemsky, 20, star in his forthcoming La Chinoise and granddaughter of Nobel prizewinning Academician Francois Mauriac; he for the second time; in Begnins, Switzerland...
Obviously Godard is not taking the children of Marx and Pepsi Cola, as he calls them, too seriously. He minimizes individual importance by rudely dropping one of his characters and picking up another, by interrupting their pathetic moments with sight gags. But Godard does sometimes let his camera stay fascinated on one face. During these sequences, the camera doesn't move away from the face to explore or make analogies with the outside. It's as though the camera has a straight face. Catching every flicker of a character's eye, every turn of his head is comment enough...
...Godard uses the closeup at the end when an inspector asks Miss Goya what she will do now that her boyfriend is dead (a silly accident) and she's pregnant. Miss Goya repeats in a still voice, "I don't know"--her face almost expressionless. The effect is ambiguous, exactly like the end of Breathless. Is she finally touched by something outside herself? I don't think so. This is the closest she will ever be to having her self-containment shattered. But it can't be shattered. And just as her non-involvement protects her from an awareness...