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There were other casualties. The war's savagery, and especially the revelation of French torture of F.L.N. prisoners, caused a painful crisis of conscience among the French, from Roman Catholic François Mauriac to left-wing Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre. The war's seeming insolubility brought down the Fourth Republic and enabled Charles de Gaulle to come to power as the one man with sufficient stature to end it. Last week peace seemed closer than ever, as the F.L.N. announced its willingness to settle on the basis of an Algerian plebiscite, agreed to a "transition" period...
BRATTLE: Another episode from the New Wave's chronicle of that peculiarly post-war phenomenon, the Aimless Man, "Breathless" stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg as, respectively, a hip thug and his hapless American moll. The New Yorker found it "brilliant"; the Crimson, merely "worth seeing." Evenings...
Such is the nature of Herbert Matthews' new book, and so it was with the works of Jean-Paul Sartre, C. Wright Mills, Jules Dubois and Warren Miller. It follows that none of the writing on Cuba thus far can be classified as objective history; what has been produced is a literary extension of the issues and conflicts raised by the Revolution. Sartre and Mills, to whom the Revolution was like an overdose of hormones, totally altered their styles in trying to influence popular attitudes. Mills even admitted to a quasi-military intent when he said that mobilization of public...
...preoccupation of Jean-luc Godard and other young directors with aimlessness may be a symptom for sociologists to analyze rather than reviewers. It seems clear, though, that Michelle Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), the aimless protagonist of Breatheless, is intriguing because audiences can simultaneously identify him and dismiss him as freak. The film contains little sting or criticism because Godard's semi-comic direction fosters an atmosphere of unreality, almost one of parody. Breathless is thus saved from the pseudo-philosophic qualities that the advertisers and critics have burdened it with. Godard need not and does not comment on Michelle...
...Without Really Trying may reveal some of the inner secrets of its director, Abe Burrows, riding a score by Guys and Dolls' Frank Loesser (Oct. 14). Man at the crossroads in Africa is the subject of Kwamina, with score and lyrics by Richard Adler (Damn Yankees) (Oct. 23). Jean-Paul Sartre's Kean, drawn from the life of igth century Tragedian Edmund Kean and set in London's Drury Lane Theater, becomes a musical starring Alfred Drake (Nov. 2). The Affairs of Anatol, Arthur Schnitzler's sweet-cynical, turn-of-the-century portrait of a world...