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...Paris, Director Alain Resnais was looking for a young girl to co-star as Yves Montand's adolescent amour in La Guerre Est Finie. Geneviève transferred from the Parisian television screen to the film scene without missing a cue. She appeared opposite Alan Bates and Jean-Paul Belmondo, once as a madwoman, then as a spoiled heiress. The parts pinched a bit, but somehow Geneviève let out the seams and made them star-sized...
Genet and his hagiographer and fellow-playwright, Jean-Paul Sartre, have delved with varying degrees of success into problems of race warfare and prejudice. Sartre's The Respectable Prostitute is emblematic of French ideological radicalism carried to its most tiresome and banal extremes. Genct's special merit is his ability to collapse ideological confrontation into self-defeating burlesque which exhausts both characters and audience. His mythological perspective, always starkly simplistic. escapes shrill fury through an almost lyrical insistence on the superhuman labor which sustains all role-playing in the phantasy-world of theatre...
...however, the forty-member academy's new president observes: "There were no moviemakers around at the time of Louis XIV, so I sincerely believe we would in no way offend the founders by recognizing this new art form." The president is Sculptor Paul Belmondo, 72, father of Actor Jean-Paul...
...mild bunch descends on the cash resources of NATO, which are being moved from France to Belgium via freight train. Three separate elements pursue the loot: a tough Mafioso (Eli Wallach), two French thieves (Bourvil and Jean-Paul Belmondo) and an elegant supercriminal (David Niven) known respectfully as "the Brain...
Truffaut's latest release (not yet seen in the U.S.)- The Siren of Mississippi -retains the loving detachment of his other films. It also signals a kind of return to Jules and Jim. exploring the constantly changing relationship between two people (Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve). The changes in their relationship are frequent, radical, and usually unpredictable...