Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...largest of these congregations is the 18,000-member Brothers of the Christian Schools, founded in 1680 by France's St. Jean Baptiste de la Salle. They operate eight colleges and 96 high schools in the U.S.; the schools in California benefit from the profits of the famed Napa Valley winery. Next in size are the Marist Brothers (10,400) and the Irish Christian Brothers...
Varda's hero is a handsome young carpenter named François, an easygoing embodiment of the masculine principle, feelingly played by Actor Jean-Claude Drouot, whose real-life wife Claire and their two children portray his family on film. François defines happiness as "submitting to the order of nature," and his life unfolds as a midsummer day's dream of simple pleasures: work, lovemaking, raising the children, traipsing off to the woods for a family picnic. These sequences have the honey warmth and texture of old snapshots or souvenirs collected on a holiday...
...Montand family, I was particularly impressed by Michel Piccoli, whose portrait of the unhappy clerk is a small masterpiece. Perspiring as freely as he fantasizes, nervously smoothing his sparse, slicked-down hair, and curling his lips into a tobacco-stained smile, Piccoli is simultaneously poignant, and repulsive. Charles Denner, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Claude Mann never fail to be compelling as a cynically belligerent smark aleck, Miss Signoret's languidly egotistical lover, and a charming but distant policeman, respectively...
Another talked-about film was Un Homme et Une Femme, a modest story of a simple love affair between a young widow (Anouk Aimée) and a racing-car driver (Jean-Louis Trintignant). New Wave Director Claude Lelouch, 28, shot the picture in four weeks, at one point had himself strapped with his camera to the hood of a speeding car to get realistic footage of the races. The crusty critics even applauded during the showing, rated the film as an homme-dinger, a top contender for the festival's first prize, the Golden Palm...
...exasperating, novelist and autobiographer. In both forms she has displayed an intransigent hostility toward the values of her own family-Catholic, provincial, bourgeois. She has celebrated an escape into atheism, Paris and existentialism, and she has strewn a great deal of philosophical confetti over her famous non-wedding with Jean-Paul Sartre, her unembarrassable non-bridegroom. Now, this brilliant, honest, but Gallically humorless woman, who in The Second Sex denied even the facts of life, confronts the fact of death...