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...women sisters in love with the same man not two men with one woman, and here the nationalities are French and English and not French and German. But there is the same prewar period and the same complicated triangle of inter-relationships Claude Roc (Jean-Pierre Leaud), a timorous young Frenchman of a slowly eroding fortune and an over-fond mother meets a young English girl. Anne Brown, visiting Paris. The two become friends, and in time Claude makes a reciprocal visit to the Brown home in Wales. There he gradually, but inevitably, falls in love with Muriel. Anne...
...desolate Sicilian hills and irrationally winding cities with piercing black-and-white clarity, editing and threading the machinations of the different groups of swindlers. There is beauty in the film, images which even the flaming aesthete would want to pin up on his wall next to his Jean-Pierre Leaud poster--but the beauty came from a commitment Rosi made before he ever picked up a movie camera...
Skolimowski fills his backgrounds with imagery (a painter covering a wall in red, a man in the swimming pool rolling over and over in a kayak) that is both disorienting and quite funny. Mike is clearly descended from the manic protagonists embodied by Jean-Pierre Leaud in Godard's films and in Skolimowski's Le Départ. They all suffer their youth as if it were a wound...
...Domicile Conjugal), this director's latest work, is the final episode in his remarkable cycle of films utilizing his autobiographical persona, Antoine Doinel. As in the previous segments of this informal series ( The 400 Blon's, Love at Twenty, and Stolen Kisses ), the hero is played by Jean-Pierre Leaud and his dilemma has to do with the conflict between his grandest visions of romance and the dulling routine that is in reality his existence. With variations. Antoine's problem is shared by the heroes of most of Truffaut's non-Doinel films as well- but nowhere...
When he does capitulate, it is not unlike the final defeat of Victor at the end of Truffaut's last film, The Wild Child (which was dedicated to Leaud). Having been tamed by civilization, Victor must finally accept love on his captor's terms, thereby closing off the possibilities of life that had been his in the forest. By the conclusion of Bed and Board, Antoine and Christine have transformed their relationship into an apparently mindless mechanism, causing their next-door neighbor to remark to her husband that the newlyweds are now "really in love...