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...away the facades of buildings and to make the entire fauborg one stage. A fine example of this technique is the murder scene. The camera, apparently placed in an upper story window across the street, follows Lange from the moment he sees Batala attempting to seduce Florelle (Lange's mistress). Looking through a second floor window, Lange realizes Florelle's danger. It is late at night, and the camera traces Lange's progress through the office and down into the street. His deliberate movements can be seen through the windows that front the staircase and the second floor...
...with her, which the filming tries vainly to suggest, is just too much. He has made it too clear that he was only sorry for her in the week or two their marriage lasted. He has spent too many years in a state verging on contentment with his peasant mistress. Gerasimov's treatment of the final scenes is aimed at portraying an enlightened man undoing past mistakes. What comes out is a picture of a man, like a rat, hopping between sinking ships. He is no homecoming hero at all. He is still Grigori, and everyone in the audience knows...
...suitor from Merton Densher to Miles Dunster (because, says Moore, ''the name Densher could not be enunciated today without a ribald response"), and they gave the opera an extra twist by making Densher announce, after the death of the heiress, that he no longer loves his covetous mistress, Kate Croy. At opera's end, lonely Kate wraps herself in a white shawl that once belonged to the heiress, Milly Theale-the wings of the dove still divide the plotters...
...mother, who falls seriously ill on the way and is rushed off to the nearest hospital. Joss (Susannah York) and the three smaller children put up at a pretty pension in the country-actually a small chaāteau done over. Drōle de ménage. The mistress of the establishment, a pretty spinster (Danielle Darrieux) of a certain age, is in love with the star boarder (Kenneth More), a dashing Englishman who instantly appoints himself acting uncle to the children, fighting their battles with the help and taking them for drives...
With that decision, all unwitting, she sets her foot on the road of experience that spirals down the magic mountain of childhood, down into a world without hockey, a world where she is suddenly evil and cruel as well as good and kind, where a furious mistress throws champagne in her face and a busboy (David Saire) tries to rape her and she herself in a girlish pique betrays the Englishman to the police, and only the next day discovers that she loves him. "I'll never love anyone else!" she sobs as the road seems suddenly...