Word: lelouche
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...widower fall in love, in a way, although flashback memories of the dead stunt man keep popping up when Anouk and Jean-Louis go to bed for the first time. Will she forget her old love for the sake of the new? Trying to answer the question, Director Claude Lelouch, 28, composes some stylish scenes and tosses in enough cinematic tricks borrowed from older New Wave directors-abrupt switches from black-and-white to color, for example-to have won this year's Cannes Festival Grand Prix. But his does-she-or-doesn't-she story, banal...
Another talked-about film was Un Homme et Une Femme, a modest story of a simple love affair between a young widow (Anouk Aimée) and a racing-car driver (Jean-Louis Trintignant). New Wave Director Claude Lelouch, 28, shot the picture in four weeks, at one point had himself strapped with his camera to the hood of a speeding car to get realistic footage of the races. The crusty critics even applauded during the showing, rated the film as an homme-dinger, a top contender for the festival's first prize, the Golden Palm...