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With his socialist books no longer banned in Portugal, French Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, 69, felt encouraged enough to take a firsthand reading of the Portuguese revolution. During a 15-day visit to the country with his longtime friend, Author Simone de Beauvoir, 67, Sartre chatted with writers and students, toured a factory and dined in Lisbon's Red Barracks Canteen with the Light Artillery Regiment, most radical of Portugal's revolutionary forces. Despite his antimilitarism, Sartre seemed thoroughly reconciled to the Portuguese army, which, he said, "is not like any other" since it represents all classes...
Stavisky himself (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a two-bit swindler blown up to a Hindenburg of a con man, manipulating fake international corporations and floating fake bond issues. Stavisky thinks he's left his old world of petty fraud behind, and Resnais seems to agree with him, emphasizing the discontinuity between the pickpocket and the cosmopolitan "financier." Stavisky affects history in a way a pickpocket cannot, Resnais maintains; I'affaire Stavisky, when it's blasted out of the water, shakes the Popular Front Government of Leon Blum and forces the deportation of Leon Trotsky, who until then had enjoyed political...
STAVISKY, Alain Resnais's first feature in five years, is a sort of symbolic biography of the French swindler (nicely played by Jean-Paul Belmondo) whose exposure almost brought down the Third Republic in 1934. Resnais has had the movie photographed like a posh '30s illustration, a style made fashionable by films as varied as The Conformist and Chinatown. But Resnais undercuts all his images of antique chic (among which may be counted Anny Duperey as Stavisky's wife) with symbols of death: orchids, cemeteries, the funeral pyramid in the Pare Monceau. Resnais and his screenwriter, Jorge...
...YEARS AGO in an essay called "On Genocide," Jean-Paul Sartre condemned the United States government for its seemingly unlimited commitment to the total destruction of the Vietnamese people. Hidden away in that essay was a single paragraph dealing with the hypothesis: What if the war were to end? Sartre concluded that the U.S. would then pursue a more sophisticated form of genocide in which the Vietnamese people would be economically, politically and culturally suppressed. Such an argument is difficult to prove even now, in the so-called aftermath of the war. Yet more than one and a half years...
Mississippi Mermaid, showing at the Brattle until Tuesday, tops the best double-bill in town, Mermaid, like Cinderella Liberty, is a romantic work, but in this case it's romance with a lot of heart and brain behind it. Francols Truffaut, working with Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo, has created a beautiful motion picture that is in many ways more rewarding than the Antoine Doinel series. Mermaid is playing with another Truffaut flick, The Bride Wore Black starring Jeanne Moreau. This one is relatively lightweight, but it's still an eminently enjoyable bit of story-telling. Shows begin...