Word: mallee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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French film makers appear to have an abiding and unbounded affection for childhood recollection. The results have sometimes been memorable (François Truffaut's The 400 Blows), occasionally even classic (Jean Vigo's Zero for Conduct). Such adventures into the past require a good deal of perspective...
The film does not try to develop ideas about its subject. It lacks any stylistic will to lay things open, to cut apart fictional characters or real societies so we can see better what they are made of. The Cuban Revolution, for example, is presented as the hero's "revenge...
Cause Célèbre. The result is a grotesque charade. For the past six months, gendarmes have stormed a Montmartre printing plant once each fortnight. There they seize and confiscate every issue of La Cause they can find. But the sly old iconoclast long ago found a secret...