Word: mallee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO may be the only actor in the world who could look suave, imperturbable and sexy straight through Armageddon. Louis Malle, using Belmondo's steeliness for its full impact, gives us ten long minutes of his cool gaze at the opening of Le Voleur. (This is an apparently...
Fair enough, we decide. Ripping off the rich is not necessarily a spiritual job. But why does Malle linger so long over the process, over the awkward thumps and collapsing objects? Belmondo appears in a marvelous Magritte poster-like costume--mustache, bowler hat and all--and we feel primed for...
IF THIS WAY of getting even impresses us as cynical, Malle certainly helps the decadence along. When the thief runs into his family priest during his getaway, one suspects he might repent. No need to, though, because the good curate turns out to be a master crook himself. The hypocrisy...
Belmondo's great backlash at the money-grubbing world has palled. We miss the scheming smiles and gleaming winks he projects so well, and even Bujold is having trouble lighting his Don Juan-ish spark. In a very late scene a telegram summons Belmondo to his uncle's deathbed, and...
Unlike Louis Malle in Lacombe, Lucien, Wertmuller does not minimize the implications of the collaboration. Instead she demonstrates the consequences of valuing survival above all else, that there can then be no limits to what a man can be driven to do. With a direct and ruthless eye, Wertmuller illustrates...