Word: jeanes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles away from the Piessets in one of the dreariest slums of the same northern French city live wan and wasted Jeanne Derock, a local mill worker, her husband Jean-Baptiste, a wounded war veteran able to do only occasional work, and their five children, all of whom sleep in beds knocked together out of old fish crates by papa Derock...
...most obvious mistake in Preminger's Joan is Preminger's Joan-a charming, shrinking young girl named Jean Seberg, aged 18, whom the director "discovered," according to the picture's panting publicity, in the vicinity of Marshalltown, Iowa. Actress Seberg, with the advantage of youth, the disadvantage of inexperience, is drastically miscast. Shaw's Joan is a chunk of hard brown bread, dipped in the red wine of battle and devoured by ravenous angels. Actress Seberg, by physique and disposition, is the sort of honey bun that drugstore desperadoes like to nibble with their milk shakes...
Rouben Ter-Aruntunian's costumes are stunning. And Jean Rosenthal has contrived gorgeous lighting, including the unobtrusively judicious use of a "follow spot"; the lighting is by no means realistic, but rather underlines the shifting moods of the drama. Virgil Thomson's trumpet calls and occasional tenuous sound effects add virtually nothing...
Bourgés-Maunoury had first to win approval of his own deeply divided Radical Socialist Party, among whom are such antagonists as Pierre Mendes-France and such influential though relatively unknown anti-Europeans as diminutive Newspaper Owner Jean Baylet, whose Dépéche du Midi circulates its narrow message throughout France's poorer South. Radicals questioned Bourges sharply about his plans, finally voted 44 to 10 that he take his first step. Muttered a Radical Deputy: "That doesn't mean we've approved him yet as Premier...
...quite-emancipated woman-a time when literary convention prescribed, as the natural consequence of adultery, a cholera epidemic. In The Seventh Sin the epidemic is caused by an American girl (Eleanor Parker) married to a British bacteriologist (Bill Travers) but carrying on with a French business man (Jean Pierre Aumont) in Hong Kong. When her husband finds out, he (of course) packs her off posthaste to the nearest outbreak of cholera. Her character immediately begins to improve. The local white trash (George Sanders) philosophically assures her that Schnapps ist gut für die Cholera. But at the sight...