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From the first cry of "au jeu" (play ball), the game was in fact extraordinary. For one thing, the Expos managed to set some kind of freak record by committing three errors on three balls hit by the same player in the same inning.* For another, they came from behind and defeated the Cardinals 8 to 7. The resulting delirium was just too much for one group of fans who excitedly waved a sign that read: EXPOS-WORLD SERIES OR BUST...
...theirs, he is doomed: his actions will cause his destruction. We see him in the hero of Boudu Sauve des Eaux, in the heroine of Petite Marchande d'Allumettes and of Madame Bovary, in Batala of Le Crime de M. Lange, in the aviator of La Regle du Jeu. Renoir expresses the fixity of the particular film's world stylistically, ending the film with a few shots which show the world unchanged by the death of the maverick. Thus Petite Marchande ends with flat, illusionistic images; Boudu shows Boudu and the Lestingois in their completely separate environments, one free...
...prints sell for more than some inexpensive Picassos but only because of the numbers of editions printed, the size, the demand of the piece. The originals are all 'the real thing,' and worth having, though it is unlikely that your seven dollar Dufy of today will hang in the Jeu de Pomme tomorrow...
There are four cards in the hand: two boys, Mark and Eric; two striking girls, Elizabeth and Emilie. They see more or less of what is happening, the Jeu Total. (That is the title of a French poster in Eric's apartment. Poster of a face holding four cards, the cards are held by a witch who mixes hands from the hand. To know Jeu Total you must know the mind of the player, the Witch of Changes. "A sullen, sleepy-eyed girl--someone really nasty." You won't forget the line when you hear...
...NONE of the four cards understand Jeu Total. They play their own game, they conspire to create people. The scene in the hospital when Eric leaves Elizabeth for Emilie, the shortcake scene between Mark and Elizabeth, the park scene between Eric and Emilie--good moments. Something is felt, something is quietly shown. Put the witch out of mind to appreciate Tom Jones, Howard Cutler, Maeve Kinkead, Mary Smith. They make characters into beings...