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Truffaut's decision to do without the services of Jean-Pierre Leaud for one film, at least, is triumphantly vindicated. Leaud is a wonderful actor in some respects, but he is sui generis; one could no more imagine him in a role in this movie than Woody Allen could have taken a part in, say, Gone With the Wind. Isabel Adjani conveys all the levels of Adele's emotional life, though I suspect that the film might have been more effective if she looked older, more like the thirty she is supposed to be. Adjani manages to epitomize everything French...
...Mother and the Whore. A little-known masterpiece that deserves to be seen. Jean Eustache has turned trivial and quotidian dialogue into a powerful commentary on deep and diverse issues. Four hours long but worth every minute. Jean Pierre Leaud is even better here that he is in Truffaut's mold. One of the most thought-provoking films of recent years...
...Blows, Truffaut's first great movie, stars a 12-year-old Jean Paul Leaud and you can see it for free if you got a t.v. It's playing on channel 5 tonight...
...moral point or offer a strong emotional appeal. He is constantly teasing the audience about its desire for an easy way out. At one point Marie (Bernadette Lafont) quietly gets up and goes into the bathroom where she takes an overdose of sleeping pills, and Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Leaud) panics. When, later on, Alexandre himself gets up and goes to the medicine cabinet, you expect him to do something equally dramatic--to slash his wrists, for example. Instead he sprays his face with cologne...
Luis Bunuel's Belle de Jour, and a Stan Brakhage short, The Process, Thursday, April 18, 8 p.m., Glauber Rocha's Der Leone Have Sept Cabezas, with Jean-Pierre Leaud, Sunday, April...