Word: lelouch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed and Written by Claude Lelouch...
...Claude Lelouch must be the happiest man in the world. In his films, the characters are unfailingly kind and attractive, the food is always three-star and the settings make Dufy landscapes look like teeming slums. Not even death can cloud his sunny disposition. Though Lelouch's Cat and Mouse is a murder mystery, complete with bloodied corpse, it is resolutely benign: the many bad guys are as charming as their victims. One doubts that Lelouch would recognize evil if it smashed him in the face...
...tend to be an acquired taste. Cat and Mouse is his best film in a long while, but like A Man and a Woman and Happy New Year, it only works on its own sentimental terms. Look for deeper, darker meanings and you'll discover a vacuum. Luckily, Lelouch makes it easy for an audience to succumb to his fluff. His sincerity is so complete and his style so lyrical that all but the terminally cynical can suspend disbelief and enlist in the joyride...
...Bruno Cremer), who is working his way up in the police bureaucracy. The film dawdles perhaps too long over their early struggles for advancement. On the other hand, both are established as men of some decency in their private lives-a point to be borne in mind once Lelouch finally arrives at the heart of his film, namely the war years...
...film has an interesting story to tell and some nice, if familiar, points to make about how circumstances can change, and change again, our definitions of who is good, who is bad. And there is something admirable about Lelouch's refusal to overdramatize the moral questions that he is examining. Yet in the end this hurts the film dramatically. There really is more here than meets the eye of this light-minded romantic, with his strongly developed taste for period décor and graceful camerawork. One may be a trifle tired of films and books that pore over...