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This odd movie is the work of Jacques Prevert and Marcel Carné, who made Children of Paradise (TIME, Nov. 25). Of its fairly unprecedented kind-it is a classical medieval romance on film-it is close to perfection. But it seems unlikely that many U.S. moviegoers will care for it as much as the French critics who voted it the best French film...
...been 23 years since Poet Andre Breton rattled the saucers in Left Bank cafes with his "First Manifesto of Surrealism," a compound of Freudianism and calculated nonsense. In those days, Marcel Duchamp (who drew U.S. catcalls in 1913 with his Nude Descending the Staircase) got high critical acclaim when he filled a birdcage full of marble cubes, stuck in a thermometer, and entitled it Why Not Sneeze? Duchamp and Breton had worked together for months assembling the screwy props for last week's screwy show...
...Said Marcel Trarieux, a 36-year-old French veteran who runs a garage near Vincennes...
...Republic. The defendant was, in fact, one Jacques Bourin, on trial for collaboration. He had been a major in pro-Nazi Marcel Déat's SS à la Française. At some point during his career, he got interested in Pierre Joseph Proudhon, a 19th Century French social philosopher, sometimes known as the "Father of Anarchy." Proudhon fought against private property (which he called theft) and government, as well as his fellow Utopians...
Invited to his party this week were Lazareff Friends Prince Peter of Greece, ex-Premier Paul Reynaud, Mistinguett, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Cocteau, Cinema Producers Marcel Pagnol and René Clair, dozens of writers, Cabinet Ministers, deputies and generals. They could toast Lazareff as one of the few journalists who had lived through, without being stained by, the venal days of France's prewar press. They also could toast a proved proposition : that journalistic honesty can pay off in France...