Word: michell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world press, have been nearly as energetic as the university riots of 1968, in which students disrupted Paris and hastened De Gaulle's exit from public life. One day in February, 15,000 Paris lycée students spontaneously took over the Latin Quarter's Boulevard St. Michel and stayed put for seven hours in defiance of the Minister of the Interior, who had outlawed the demonstration. They dispersed only after a judge reversed a lower-court ruling and freed 19-year-old Gilles Guiot, who had been jailed on flimsy charges of striking a flic during...
...plaintiff, Controleur Général de Police Michel Gonzales, was confident that no judge would uphold the defendant. In polite society, after all, one never even says merde outright but le mot de Cambronne, a reference to the same word used by a Napoleonic general when the British suggested that he surrender at Waterloo...
Across the Channel, the change in mood and tense is more than linguistic. Un Conde (The Cop) plays the game of cops and robbers with the impact and subtlety of a .45 slug. Inspector Favenin (Michel Bouquet) has been censured for insubordination. Sullen, spiritually bankrupt, he blurs the distinction between criminal and keeper. When a young colleague is murdered, Favenin cracks. With deranged courage, he preempts the entire legal profession-cop, lawyer, judge, jury, executioner-and runs the gang to earth, ritualistically following the sanguinary vitality of the ancient Warner Bros, gangster movies...
...them is Henry Adams, the great-grandnephew of the author of Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres. Instead of writing about stained glass, the most recent Adams to graduate from Harvard intends to go into the craft itself, making skylights and glass sections for geodesic domes.* Ross Coppelman, a Harvard '70 English major, is making a variable but decent enough living...
...film is also infused with a Michel Legrand score that is at once appalling and appropriate. Its romantic attempts to tumble into poignancy echo Francis Lai's Love Story theme, but here the music seems to actually reflect the true excesses of its period. In fact, in the film's climactic scene, Hermie places a big band treatment of the film's theme song onto the phonograph, and, in the wonderful moment that follows, the two realities-that of purported, remembered history and blatant movie artificiality-merge. Like a mobius strip, the film turns back on itself and, for just...