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...Green Mare (Zenith-International) is what happens when the French take another whack at Fanny. Like that famously funny film first made by Marcel Pagnol, The Green Mare is a comedy of barnyard humors adapted from a ribald but rusé ironic novel by Marcel Aymé. Regrettably, Director Claude Autant-Lara lacks both Pagnol's touch and Aymé's intensity. The Green Mare ain't what she used to be. Nevertheless she is, as the French say, green-which means, as the Americans say, blue. The plot, for example, involves a Rabelaisian family feud...
...Shot in the Dark, adapted for Broadway by Harry Kurnitz from Marcel Achard's Paris hit L'Idiote, combines bedroom farce with murder mystery. The sex and suspense are unevenly blended, but a sharpshooter cast, headed by Julie Harris and Walter Matthau, drills the evening acceptably full of laughs...
Fine Arts: The best twin bill in Boston at the moment. BLACK ORPHEUS is Marcel Camus' re-telling of the Orpheus-Eurydice myth in modern Rio. Don't go if you're tired; it's excellent but exhausting. Color is spectacular...
...Marcel compared the philosopher with the explorer, in the sense that both carry on their "research" without preconceived notions, and therefore without conflict between expectations and discoveries. The detective, in contrast, is searching for something specific, and rejects everything else he finds as irrelevant...
...Marcel added one important qualification to his emphasis on the philosopher's inquiry and "wonderment." Philosophical questioning, he said, may be used with "blind obstinacy" and degenerate to something "mechanical" if it is separated from experience...