Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WOMAN IS A WOMAN. France's Jean-Luc Godard glorifies the offbeat amours of a Parisian stripteaser (Anna Karina) with some gay, giddy improvisations inspired by New Wave esprit and a handful of old Hollywood musicals...
Poor Bitos, by Jean Anouilh. A game played for real is either war or murder. In France, the game of politics is a visceral sport. Poor Bitos hinges on this sport, but American playgoers may respond more to its fascinating intellectuality than to its somewhat alien passions...
...Abysses is drawn from a celebrated French murder case of 1933, which also inspired Jean Genet's drama The Maids. Selected by Andre Malraux as France's entry in the 1963 Cannes film festival, it arrives in the U.S. trailing breathless encomiums from Jean-Paul Sartre ("Cinema has given us its foremost tragedy"), and Simone de Beauvoir ("One of the greatest films I have ever seen"). Since such illustrious, finely honed sensibilities are not easily ignored, the ordinary moviegoer probably ought to read what has been written about the movie instead of actually sitting through it. Only cultists...
Ostensibly, the girls are pitiable embodiments of evil-monsters created by callousness, oppression, and the unnatural conditions of servitude. But Director Nico Papatakis and Scenarist Jean Vauthier twist this black theme into a cinema of absurdity that falls somewhere between the Marx Brothers and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? In its liveliest moments, Les Abysses is unwittingly hilarious, an amateur Grand Guignol about a pair of sleazy, sullen chambermaids running amuck in Bedlam. When they are not dancing or screaming, they stab the furniture with hatpins, chip the plaster, bring in termites, pulverize the best china, wallop their mistress...
...THIEF'S JOURNAL by Jean Genet. 268 pages. Grove...