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It is hard to know with how much irony "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" was originally meant. At times, the film does have a sort of post-modern self-consciousness, such as when a merry mechanic sings that he can't stand singing and that he much prefers movies without singing...
Soon after rejoining his friends, Angelo decides to return alone to Italy, only to discover that the border has been closed off for fear of the cholera. He also meets the young woman who helped him, whom, we do not learn until much later, is called Pauline de Theus, and...
The story as a whole is pretty similar to Angelo's journeys: both are given a certain amount of momentum by chases, deaths, fights with mobs and soldiers, but remain essentially aimless, lacking in direction and overarching purpose. Emotional and psychological themes are also, for the most part, given short...
Bill seemed to flaunt his interest in certain women. One summer he liked to run with Pat Wyatt, who was locally renowned as a founder of the Marquis de Sade running club. When he'd return from their runs, he couldn't stop extolling her virtues to his wife. (Wyatt...
THE MOST POPULAR PLAY IN NEW York this season might be called She Still Looks Terrific. It's getting tremendous word-of-mouth in theater lobbies all over town. You can hear it at the Martin Beck, where Carol Burnett (age 62) is shining in Moon Over Buffalo, and at...