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Bishop Rafael Alvarez Lara agreed to give the idea a trial in his See of Guadix, and Brothers Hilarion and Bernardo went to work. In the cemetery's dilapidated tool shed, they arranged two small cells and a tiny kitchen. All day long, they labor in the graveyard, clearing paths, repairing crumbling headstones, replacing rusty iron crosses and digging graves, an average of one a day. Each day they rise at 2 a.m. to walk in meditation through the cemetery to the tiny chapel, where they pray until...
...microphone to sing and play in a two-hour broadcast over Mexico's 254 radio stations. All of the 50-odd songs they sang were the work of a gaunt, sad-eyed, scar-faced wisp of a man who watched from the wings. His name: Agustin Lara, who was celebrating the 25th anniversary of his career as Mexico's and Latin America's favorite composer...
...Agustin Lara has been called Mexico's Irving Berlin, though the parallel is more in output and popularity than in mood.* Inimitably latino, Lara is a composer of melancholy love songs who now single-mindedly says: "Woman is the reason for my existence." Since, like Berlin, he can neither read nor write music, he pecks out his tunes on a piano and lets others set them down. In this fashion he has written some 600 songs of love, of whispered reproach and moaning despair...
Devil in the Flesh owes much of its power as well to the direction of Claude Autan-Lara, which heightens the drama of the tale without sacrificing its subtlety. Even in contrasting the joy of the Armistice with the pathos of the young woman's death, the film skirts mawkishness and makes the bereavement of the lover more deeply felt. But above all, the intensity of Devil in the Flesh is due to the performances of Gerard Philipe and Micheline Presle. Every expression and intonation is eloquent if the anguish of a boy struggling to cope with...
Some of the other sequences are much better. Envy, adapted by Director Roberto Rossellini from a Colette story, is the intriguing yarn of a newlywed wife, who is jealous of her husband's affection for his pet cat. Pride, directed by Claude (Devil in the Flesh) Autant-Lara, is a mordant study of an impoverished, aristocratic mother and daughter (well played by Franchise Rosay and Michele Morgan). The best episode is Gluttony, a Rabelaisian sketch written and directed by Carlo Rim, about a handsome doctor, who seeks shelter during a storm in the home of a peasant. There...