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...seems, until Director Alain Resnais warms to his real work: examining the mind and mores of a Spanish Communist refugee who lives in France but plots to undermine Spain's government. Diego, the refugee (Yves Mon-tand), refuses to concede that the Civil War ended in 1939, that for all but a dwindling detachment of long-memoried men La Guerre Est Finie-the war is over. Diego travels a dreadmill between the two countries in constant fear of arrest. He knows that for him there can be no victory, only an avoidance of defeat. Still, out of a habit...
...Hiroshima Mon Amour and Muriel, Director Resnais is obsessed with the mixture of memory and desire, and his overly literary Guerre at times seems both pat and prolonged. Viewers, however, are not likely to be bored with the performance of actor-singer Yves Montand. With a sour, craggy face fatefully evocative of Bogart and Camus, he exhales an air of melancholy strength that makes Diego seem as abused and battered as an old zinc bar-and just as uncorrodible...
...seems, until Director Alain Resnais warms to his real work: examining the mind and mores of a Spanish Communist refugee who lives in France but plots to undermine Spain's government. Diego, the refugee (Yves Mon-tand), refuses to concede that the Civil War ended in 1939, that for all but a dwindling detachment of long-mem-oried men La Guerre Est Finie - the war is over...
...Hiroshima Mon Amour and Muriel, Director Resnais is obsessed with the mixture of memory and desire, and his overly literary Guerre at times seems both pat and prolonged. Viewers, however, are not likely to be bored with the performance of actor-singer Yves Montand. With a sour, craggy face fatefully evocative of Bogart and Camus, he exhales an air of melancholy strength that makes Diego seem as abused and battered as an old zinc bar - and just as uncorrodible...
STEPHANIE: I've taken the grand tour. C'mon, let me show you something. (All three push their way with relish through a door and bounce up a staircase). It's over here. Look. (she points to a worn stall with some carvings in the wood...