Word: leaud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Truffaut will speak following the 8 p.m. New England Premiere of his latest film, Day for Night, starring Truffaut and Jean-Pierre Leaud...
BURR HALL: French Film Festival: May 11: Talk by Henri Langlois and presentation of a rare film from his Cinematheque collection, 7:30. May 12: Jean Eustache, Robinson's Place and Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes with Jean-Pierre Leaud, 7:30, Maurice Pialat's L'Enfance Nue, 9:30. May 13: Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 7:30, Agnes Varda, Le Bonheur, 9:30. May 14: Eric Rohmer, La Collectionneuse, 7:30, My Night at Maud's, 9:30. May 15: Phillipe De Broca, Cartouche, with Claudia Cardinale and Jean-Paul Belmondo, 7:30, Love Game...
...aggression and Jeanne's passivity, or emphasizing yet another in a long chain of random perversities (like Mother's loves for Father's boots). He does throw in a welcome parody of Godard and his films, all hollow Hollywood-loving childishness, abetted by the eternally adolescent actor Jean-Pierre Leaud. But even its welcome is soon worn out. And the last tango itself is pathetic: painted Fellini faces contort, and toothpick bodies sway on a dance floor as Paul tries to impress Jeanne at ringside with foreign accents and booze, and after a few drunken moves on the dance floor...
...this tradition of paying homage to his mentors: In The Spider's Stratagem, made in 1969, the camera lingers briefly over a poster for Robert Aldrich's Wagnerian western The Last Sunset; in Tango there is a scene aboard a barge, between Maria Schneider and Jean-Pierre Leaud, that is meant to evoke Jean Vigo's classic L'Atalante...
APART FROM WHAT this implies about Leaud's acting range, it raises some serious questions about Truffaut's limitations as writer-director. In thirteen years of filmmaking, his consistent theme, with remarkably few exceptions, has been the problems of adolescence--maturation, identity, introspection, loneliness, sexual confusion and so on. Even his middle-aged characters are generally adolescents in disguise. At times he has handled this theme as well as anyone, but in Two English Girls, when he makes hesistant attempts to break new ground, he fails completely. He has begun to take his characters too seriously, and they...