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...Festival also recieved Godard's Le Petit Soldat, made in 1960 but never before shown in this country. The film, banned in France, concerns the activities of a group of Rightist terrorists who bomb noted French liberals in placid Geneva. To introduce the actress Anna. Karina, his latest find, Godard has a fictional magazine photographer shoot pictures of her singing, pouting, and dancing for five full minutes...
...uses the scene to illustrate his belief that there is no division between fiction and reality. Both the fictional photographer in the film and the actual movie camera are taking pictures of Anna Karina. Similarly in another scene, gangsters, slick and cool as in a detective story, appear very real when they trip over their own feet...
...himself upon it like a pimpled schoolboy tussling for kisses in the cloakroom. Famed for his ability to guide young actresses from obscurity to nudity, Vadim usually displays them backside up amidst a pile of sheets. In Circle, with five lissome beauties at his disposal (Fonda, Catherine Spaak, Anna Karina, Francine Bergé, Marie Dubois), he simply varies the routine with a good deal of explicit groping, button tugging and lifting of skirts...
...instilled in that chef d'oeuvre two simple messages: 1) Women are trouble; 2) If you've got to ask whether they're worth it, well, you'd better just skedaddle right on out of Belmondo's league. Jean-Luc Goddard has embraced this prehistoric theme, Paris, and Anna Karina, in a long, zany bear...
...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...