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Directed by CLAUDE LELOUCH Screenplay by CLAUDE LELOUCH and PETER UYTTERHOEVEN
...asking a good deal of a film to expect it not only to depict history but enhance it. At the start of his new movie, Claude Lelouch seems about to make just such an attempt. And Now My Love begins like a silent movie. In the early years of the century, a Parisian cameraman (Charles Denner) is trying out his marvelous new movie machine in a park. He focuses on a lovely woman (Marthe Keller). In the series of fast cuts that follows, he marries her, she becomes pregnant, and he gets news of the birth of his daughter moments...
...both played again by Keller and Denner. The meeting itself is extraordinary, a moment of strangeness and promise. It occurs on board a train loaded with passengers who are the devastated victims of concentration camps. The familiarity of the scene, the desolation of the faces, is awful. Yet Lelouch challenges our usual response by having a radio play Glenn Miller's Moonlight Serenade in the background. The song throws the scene into starker relief. The passengers are revealed not as victims but as survivors being ushered into the postwar world...
Unfortunately, all this is kind of an elaborate teaser, a prologue that explores the ancestry of the woman who will ultimately be the heroine of the film. Despite Lelouch's insubstantial reputation, based on the success of A Man and a Woman (1966), he has in fact made at least two witty, true love stories (Love Is a Funny Thing and Happy New Year). In And Now My Love. Lelouch starts to equal them, then turns away and instead reconfirms everyone's darkest thoughts about his unregenerate slickness...
Visions of Eight. Eight directors from around the world look at the Munich Olympics. Kon Ichikawa, Arthur Penn, Milos Forman, Claude Lelouch, Mai Zetterling, Juri Ozerov, Michael Pfleghar, and John Schlesinger. At Cinema 733, Sunday and Monday...