Word: mon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power pretensions and the docility of his Cabinet. A favorite target is Premier Michel Debré, who is depicted, not altogether incorrectly, as a puppet and errand boy. One chansonnier lyric has De Gaulle asking Debré the time. Debré's fawning answer: "Any time you like, mon...
Moody Regime. Since Gaullists worshipfully hail their leader as "mon general," Le Canard catches the mood of the regime with a whole series of possessive pronouns. Unpopular Premier Debré is referred to as "Mondebré" or "Monsatel-lite." When the French colonies disappointed De Gaulle in 1958 by choosing independence rather than autonomy within the French Community, a cartoon showed De Gaulle saying to Debré: "If you ask for independence, I'll explode...
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...picture, and there are several exceptional scenes in which the Old Originality shines through. But although he uses the film medium well, and achieves a skillful montage effect at points, Chabrol offers little that is creative. Whereas the contemporary French cinema has often been artistic in its freshness (Hiroshima, Mon Amour is an outstanding example), here it is mechanized in its very "artisticness...