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Panned by some critics and damned by the church, Jean-Luc Godard's new movie, Hail Mary, is naturally packing in scandal-loving French moviegoers. Since it opened last month, the film has been banned briefly (a judge lifted the censorship), and demonstrators have jostled and insulted ticket holders in line. The reason for the fuss is the film's plot, a contemporary version of the virgin birth. Mary is the outspoken, truculent daughter of a gas-station manager; Joseph is a taxi driver who at the news of her pregnancy mutters about how good her other lovers must have...
Maria Braun), and in the past few years has worked with Jean-Luc Godard (Passion), Ettore Scola (La Nuit de Varennes) and Marco Ferreri (The Story ofPiera). By now Schygulla has perfected the bold gesture deftly applied. The grocery-door shutters snap down, or a window shade snaps up, and a thrill sizzles through her like lightning. In the interrogation room she gets a look at her cuckolded husband and quickly puts her fingers to her eyes, gouging out his presence. Her mouth arcs, her tongue flicks, her eyes blaze, her face is illuminated by the reckless glow...
...auteurs, directors whose point of view and command of visual style entitled them to the respect given novelists and painters. In 1958, at 26, he directed The 400 Blows, brought the new wave of film makers to its crest and became a budding auteur. With fellow New Wavers Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, Truffaut yanked film into the modernist age. No longer would the screen serve merely as a window through which the spectator sees "real people." Now it could show anything, in any and all fashions. Time could be stretched or collapsed, as in Jules...
...that has become a fecund source of material for generations of movie directors. Cinematic treatments have run the gamut from Charlie Chaplin's burlesque Carmen (1916) to the soft-porn Carmen, Baby (1967). The past year alone has seen radical film versions by Peter Brook, Carlos Saura and Jean-Luc Godard...
...generation that learned to take film seriously in the '60s, Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless was nothing less than breathtaking. Offhandedly it proposed that B movies, and almost everything else in the junk culture, actually influenced behavior more profoundly than the official culture did. Openly, instead of in the coded language of melodrama, the picture suggested that most of the violence in society was both meaningless and affectless. And this it did with a brash, jump-cut technique that seemed to be anti-technique. Dedicated to Monogram Pictures, the old Poverty Row movie mill, this was a Hollywood...