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Unschooled Prose. It is equally remarkable to get such pure prose from a young (28) woman who never got beyond primary school. Normandy-born Madeleine Couppey was born in poverty, became a housemaid in her early teens. At 16 she was washing cars in a Paris garage...
Some of this story could better "be embroidered on a housemaid's knee than on film. But the picture's writers, director and musicians have done some effective things with sound (heartbeats, exaggerated rain, distorted musical flashbacks, etc.) and with storytelling; they have even risked confusing the audience by taking it a little way inside Joan's split sense of reality. Other moviemakers ought to take more such risks: the results are much more exciting than confusing...
...Philadelphia, the housemaid shortage was slightly bettered when a pioneer contingent of eight wide-eyed Puerto Rican women flew in, promptly scattered to local homes where they were guaranteed at least a year's employment. Their sponsor: Philadelphia Employment Agent Edgar Rolle, who spotted the remote womanpower pool, arranged with the Puerto Rican Government to fly the domestics...
Last week they came as usual to the paper-windowed bungalow in Tokyo's Harajuku district, but no one answered their knocking. They peeked inside. There, in a blood-soaked pile of quilts and blankets, lay Nizaemon, his wife, his baby, an old housemaid, and an 11-year-old servant girl. Tossed into Nizaemon's garden was an ax, sticky with gore...
...pleasant if not terribly exciting idea is to bring hypercorporeal Jack Oakie, an oldtime music-hall magician, back to earth as a ghost to: 1) help his daughter (Peggy Ryan) put her vaudevillian blood into circulation; 2) scare a housemaid (Irene Ryan) by walking invisibly behind her on squeaky shoes; 3) frustrate and reform a family tyrant (Gene Lockhart); 4) try to explain to his own widow (June Vincent) that the "dark lady" (Karen Randle) he walked off with, some 18 years before, was no lady, but the Angel of Death...