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...recognizing Moulin's great wartime contribution. Some saw the ceremony as designed to inaugurate De Gaulle's presidential campaign. But there come moments in France when political passion and factional rivalry are briefly overshadowed by a sense of history and literature. One such occurred when Andre Malraux, De Gaulle's Minister of Cultural Affairs and leading literary prophet, delivered a eulogy for Moulin that virtually all political factions hailed as a masterpiece...
With an emotionalism that sounds slightly too rich in any language but French, Malraux noted that when Moulin was seized by the Gestapo, "the destiny of the Resistance depended upon the courage of this man. And here today in France triumphant we have the victory of this silence so terribly paid for." Dramatically addressing the dead Moulin, Malraux cried: "You, leader of the martyred Resistance fighters who died in cellars, look with your empty eye sockets at all the women in black who now keep watch over our companions!" Malraux closed with an appeal to the 16 million Frenchmen...
...Abysses is drawn from a celebrated French murder case of 1933, which also inspired Jean Genet's drama The Maids. Selected by Andre Malraux as France's entry in the 1963 Cannes film festival, it arrives in the U.S. trailing breathless encomiums from Jean-Paul Sartre ("Cinema has given us its foremost tragedy"), and Simone de Beauvoir ("One of the greatest films I have ever seen"). Since such illustrious, finely honed sensibilities are not easily ignored, the ordinary moviegoer probably ought to read what has been written about the movie instead of actually sitting through it. Only cultists...
Canvas on Polyester. In Malraux's opinion, the original mistake was that the old ceiling had not been painted by a Delacroix, Renoir, Manet, Monet, Redon or Pissarro. Since none of them are alive, he redecorated...
...consider Malraux a minister, but a visionary," said Chagall. Once commissioned, he began with pastel sketches the size of dinner plates, then larger cartoons, which he transferred onto canvas at the Gobelin tapestry studios. To cover the 2,153-sq.-ft. circle, he used 440 Ibs. of paint and applied every bit by his own hand. The canvas was glued to the polyester panels and lifted into place. Chagall, who is 77, touched up the joints, sweating atop a 70-ft. scaffold. The whole job took him a year-and the Russian-born artist gave the masterpiece to France...