Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are major difficulties in this movie, but most of them will bother only those having read the book. The movie is worth seeing, however, if only because of the humor inherent in its material...
...Such humor is not inherent in the cartoon preceeding the main show and arrival ten minutes late is advisable. If the Brattle insists on showing only '"shuddering losers" as short subjects, it might better fill the time unused by the feature with a community sing. Follow the bouncing ball...
...young girl's face-in frame after frame of temperate loveliness. Moreover, the family somehow transcends its tragedy by the very energy and fullness with which the tragedy is lived. The director has a sense of life far larger than the merely tragic. Moreover, he has humor. The picture bubbles over with gentle laughter at the absurd things people do and are, and the set pieces of comedy-a day at school, a band concert, a visit to the village theater-are just about as funny as organized humor...
...Case of Dr. Laurent (French). Frankly polemic, frankly physiological, this story of a rural doctor hipped on natural childbirth can claim the virtues of warmth and humor even before the moving, utterly candid final scene; with Jean Gabin, Nicole Courcel...
...Case of Dr. Laurent (French). Frankly polemic, frankly physiological, this story of a rural doctor hipped on natural childbirth can claim the virtues of warmth and humor even before the moving, utterly candid final scene; with Jean Gabin, Nicole Courcel...