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Whenever they can, the singers of Wait a Minim sneak on stage to express their musical thoughts about love or hate or anything else that happens to strike their fancy. Michel Martel clowns around, but also finds time to display a voice that can find its place in any octave. Helen Ireland, throaty and soothing, and Nigel Pegram, quiet and cynical, handle the familiar folk songs with an unfamiliar sense of style...
...confession that this reviewer sat through Demoiselles with a happy idiot grin on his face, intensely pleased to watch beautiful people gaze at one another and sing lines like, "Mais tu es merveilleuse," and "Son profil est celui de ces vierges mythiques qui hantent les musees et les adolescents." Michel Legrand's music (never absent--like Cherbourg, the film is entirely sung) makes much use of half a dozen excellent themes; a ridiculously Rachmanioffy piano concerto and the chanson de Maxence are particularly memorable. Demy's lyrics simple and direct ("Estelle loin d'ici? Est-elle pres...
...West Side Story alumni, George Chakiris and Grover Dale, handle the hard-core dancing and occasional lechery with efficiency, and Jacques Perrin is as fine a romantic innocent as one could hope to see in an age of sophisticated film-making. Michel Piccoli and Danielle Darrieux, two of France's greatest screen stars, walk through their parts with characteristic skill, and Darieux, unlike the rest of the cast, does her own singing. Gene Kelly, his face frozen in its 1953 Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer grin, is wonderfully, incredibly, exciting to watch in action. Deneuve and Dorleac as twins ("toutes deux demoiselles...
...recipient but also for their government to decide when a dead man is dead. At last the Cabinet ruled that a donor is dead when his electroencephalogram (brainwave recording) has shown no activity and he has had no reflexes for several hours. Scarcely was this decision taken when Donor Michel Gyppaz, 23, died of head injuries at Paris' ancient, crumbling Hopital de la Pitie...
...Michel Deville, who directed her in Benjamin, feels that her burgeoning success is due to something more than the common combination of pressagent and pretty face. Her demeanor is cool as ever, but she has learned to project an atmosphere that audiences find appealing. "It's not really a question of expression," says Deville. "Even the great Greta Garbo didn't change her expression that much. She just created a mood around her, and Deneuve is growing more and more capable of doing the same...