Word: jeane
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...BLACKS, by Jean Genet, just past the 1,000-performance mark, may just possibly be the finest work of art ever produced on the color question...
...Life to Live. Jean-Luc Godard is the wild man of the new French cinema. After Breathless, the volcanic melodrama that inaugurated his career way back in 1960, he made two movies that even his friends admit are terrible. Then last year he suddenly settled down and made this brilliant film. My Life is a tour de style almost as startling as Breathless but more subtly accomplished, more purely felt. It is also a lyric poem in which the camera assiduously adores a beautiful woman. It is finally the tragic allegory of a soul whose pilgrimage to grace goes spiraling...
...script urgently requires the attention of that fur salesman. For another, it tells a story that has been told, and told more excitingly, a hundred times before: the story of the innocent young American girl who goes to wicked old Paris and soon loses her illusions and everything. Jean Seberg as usual (Breathless, Playtime) plays the American in Paris, and as usual she wins the customer's sympathy-she tries so hard...
SAINT GENET by Jean-Paul Sartre 625 pages. Braziller...
...LADY OF THE FLOWERS by Jean Genet. 318 pages. Grove...