Word: molinaro
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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...full-length films, and already half a dozen of them have achieved both critical acclaim and the franc approval of the public. Among the leaders François Truffaut, 27 (The Four Hundred Blows), Alain Resnais, 37 (Hiroshima, My Love), Claude Chabrol, 27 (Le Beau Serge, The Cousins), Edouard Molinaro, 31 (Back to the Wall...
...smoothly implicates her lover as a blackmailing gigolo. But the methodical husband has touched off a larger explosion than he designed, and the film resolves itself in a series of novel twists, most of which are so awkwardly handled that they seem to come off only in Director Edouard Molinaro's heavy hand...
...Molinaro, 31, is part of the so-called "new wave" of young French directors. If Back to the Wall bears any message, it is that the new wave is still some distance from shore and seems to be headed in the wrong direction. More American than French, the film lathers its small offering of Frankish realism and nuance with a thick layer of Hollywood formula...