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...Night. Another sweet movie by Truffaut, this may be more autobiographical than the others (400 Blows was the first in the line), as he plays himself. Starring Jean-Pierre Leaud, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jacqueline Bisset, and Valentina Cortese, it is about the making of a movie called "Meet Pamela." Truffaut is perhaps too enamored, wistfully so, of his material--movie-making comes off as an experiment in building T-group togetherness. The actors live harder than the parts they play, high all the time off the magic of movie-making. The movie itself is pieced together out of bits...
...MOTHER AND THE WHORE has been picked up for theatrical distribution in the U.S. That may be somewhat surprising, in view of its intimidating length (more than 3 ½ hours) and rigidly intimate scope: mostly three characters, a young man (Jean-Pierre Leaud), a young girl (Franchise Lebrun) and an older woman (Bernadette Lafont), toying with one another, taunting and seducing one another, finally vanquishing one another. The movie is direct and relentless, full of tough insight about the rites of what sometimes passes for love, and fierce in its final impact. Director Jean Eustache wrote the painstakingly accurate script...
...that Truffaut is very close to burned out. A bank of admiring critics are scavenging his previous films for motifs to expand on. Truffaut himself has reportedly been undergoing psychoanalysis. He has even spoken, perhaps facetiously, of making another film in the Antoine Doinel series, (starring Jean-Pierre Leaud) in which the "alter-ego" hero tells in analysis what his director has done to him. In Day for Night, the mercurial Leaud character is joined by the director himself, playing a director. The separation is perhaps a sign of Truffaut's gropings for a new directorial maturity: at the recent...
...week long film series and all related activities featuring French star Jean-Pierre Leaud have been cancelled due to Leaud's unexpected departure from Cambridge. Paul Michaud's Hum 197 section has been rescheduled for Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Gutman Library...
SCIENCE CENTER, Five Evenings with Jean-Pierre Leaud: The 400 Blows, Oct. 9; The Departure (Skolimowski), Oct. 10; Masculine/Feminine, Oct. 11; La Concentration (P. Garrel, U.S. Premier), Oct. 12; Bed and Board, Oct. 13, all at 7:30, $2.50 each night...