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Admittedly, the director had to work with some very amateur actors. Ray Gozzi, as the unalcoholic brother, was particularly weak. When he declaimed "I've been through a lot in life," in the very tone that one uses for "I've been to the Bick for an English," the play reaches a nadir...
Sundays and Cybèle. People turn and stare at them. No wonder. Pierre (Hardy Kruger) is 30, Cybèle (Patricia Gozzi) is twelve. Yet there they go through a pretty little park near Paris, holding hands and mooning. "You'll be 36," she murmurs dreamily, "when I'm 18. He bends and kisses her hair. Tenderly as a mother she holds his head and tells him that he looks like "un enfant perdu. Seductively as a mistress she lies on the soft sward, tells him that something touched her shoulders in a dream-"and I thought...
...such a powerfully perfumed little fleur du mat. It is lovely to look at-Cameraman Henri Decaë laves his park and his pond and his wandering darlings in a Proustian pallor of times lost. It is formidably well-played-Kruger finely suggests both Cupid and psycho, and Gozzi is a born actress with big brown eyes and a pretty little finger to wrap fathers around. And it is composed with surprising finesse-Director Serge Bourguignon, who at 31 had never before made a full-length film, makes images as surely as a peacock makes feathers...
...heart. Writing for three years, under the shadow of death,* the composer was determined to move away from what he had come to regard as his earlier "slight" music. "Create for me something that will make the world weep," he instructed his librettists. In their adaptation of Carlo Gozzi's 18th century play, as in the Puccini score, there are more hints of harshness and modernity than in any of his other works-shrieking harmonies; a howling, fickle mob; even political irony, as when the three comic but cruel ministers complain that the graveyards are full because...
...IRENE M. Gozzi Amherst, Mass...