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...Dazed and uncomprehending, she wanders off the highway clutching her dead puppy, and is taken in by a family of French farmers. Here, surrounded by the brutality of war and the brutishness of the peasants, she turns for friendship to the family's eleven-year-old son Michel (Georges Poujouly...
...partner in this selection, Alicia Markova, is a lyrical performer. Although she chose a less exacting and less exciting variation, The Sugar Plum Fairy, her technique was flawless. To Les Sylphides, she brought more spirit and charm; Michel Fokine's choreography includes a series of tours en l'air which Markova handled beautifully. At one point, however, she tangled with Paula Lloyd who is a more angular, energetic dancer, and who is not particularly well suited to this genre of ballet...
...Michel Simon makes a bawdy, bumbling old Mephisto, whose bearded, grinning face constantly pops up at windows and peers out from behind shrubbery. As the young Faust, Gerard Philipe is a romantic figure. Director Clair describes his picture as "tragicomedy." It has neither the passion of Marlowe's and Goethe's Fausts nor the visual inventiveness of Clair's best films (Sous les Toits de Paris, A Notts La Liberte), but it is an unconventional and diverting treatment of a traditional tale...
...group of French officers on sick leave were dining one evening last week with their families. A war was going on 800 miles to the north, but none of the officers was armed, nor were their sentries. At the entrance to the dining hall, Elysabeth, Nicole, Christian and Michel, children of M. Jean Perrin, vice president of Air Viet Nam, played hide & seek...
...machetes. The first grenade, thrown from the kitchen, killed Bartender Tuyen instantly. Vietnamese Cook Nguyen Van Loc played dead, but a green-clad soldier poured boiling water on him, and when he squirmed, shot him. In the hallway other green-clad soldiers shot down the Perrin children, caught little Michel running away, hacked him to death with machetes. They hurled grenades and emptied Sten guns into the crowded dining room. Then they waded into the shambles, machetes swinging. After robbing the dead, they disappeared as quietly as they had come...