Word: michel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FLIGHT INTO EGYPT, by Jean Bloch-Michel (215 pp.; Scrlbner; $3) is the story of Pierre, his wife and children-fugitives from an unnamed city in an unnamed war. They settled in a distant Alpine village where only lost and famished animals roamed the streets; the human inhabitants had been driven into slavery by the enemy. It was like being the last people on earth. But Pierre's family was no cheerful, God-fearing Swiss Family Robinson. They had no religion, no clear rules for living. Down below, Pierre knew, men were fighting and dying. Did he have...
...Flight into Egypt is a book of ideas by a man of action. Author Jean Bloch-Michel, 43, was a French soldier in World War II and a resistance fighter. But in this book, war is simply used as a dark backdrop for the drama of a family, stripped to its barest elements-man, woman, boy, girl. Their problems are ordinary, but there is no chance for the ordinary relief from them-the distractions and consolations of society. Pierre and Yvonne feel isolated even from each other. The children become alien to them, withdraw into themselves...
Cornell Borchers and Armin Dahlen are excellent as the bread parents. So is the blood mother, Yvonne Mitchell, who carries the memory of the concentration camp in her brooding face. The ten-year-old boy is Michel Ray, who comes off as a fine trouper...
...months." The most striking area of political lassitude is among French students. Twenty years ago, the Latin Quarter was seething with political turmoil. Young Socialists were conspiring at back tables of La Source, royalists were skulking in La Capoulade, making occasional forays into the Boulevard St. Michel to beat up leftists. Today La Capoulade has been redecorated into a neon-lighted sundae palace; La Source is a snack...
...Pierre Aumont, the milkman, display the irrespressible smile that refuses to take life seriously. Although Chief Inspector Bray could appear in almost any country, the snooping vicar, played by Louis Jouvet, is far too sharp and sly for the English countryside. The Molyneux, however, played by Francoise Rosay and Michel Simon do an extremely good caricature of threadbare social-climbing, although Simon achieves part of his success through a slight resemblance to Charles Laughton...