Word: montand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story comes in spurts, with snatches of documentaries thrown in at random. Robert (Yves Montand), the hero, spends most of his time wandering around the world making television documentaries. Admittedly, Robert is not a bad television documentary producer, but the horrors of Vietnam are not relevant to the love story that should be the core of the film. One can only assume that these sequences are thrown in as Contrast, but the contrast is too great to have any meaning to the audience. Half the time you are watching a French Flick, and the other half you are watching...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand and Tony Perkins form the lovers' triangle in Goodbye Again (1961), based on a novel by Francoise Sagan...
...quick montages of thoughts and objects are inserted, reaffirming Resnais' flair for visual stream of consciousness. Where Hiroshima Mon Amour used mostly flashbacks, La Guerre Est Finie's inserts are mostly flash-forwards: fears and premonitions of Diego, the middle-aged Spanish revolutionary, played so magnificently by Yves Montand. In sight and Sound, Tom Milne describes Diego as caught between two worlds "in more ways than one: between Spain and France, between youth and age, between the old Spain of the International Brigade and the new one of tourist paradises, between his settled love for Marianna and his yearning...
...border between sentiment and sentimen tality. In Live for Life, he crosses over the line - and back into the land of the Woman's Picture, where men must wander and ladies must weep, alone. The movie's hero is a bored, lecherous French television reporter (Yves Montand) who perpetually roams from his aging wife (Annie Girardot) on journeys to the Congo or the Orient, searching for stories. Though he apparently has his pick of every female in Paris, Montand eventually limits his love life to two: Girardot and a beautiful but blank American model (Candice Bergen). Considering...
Candy is not dandy for long; fighting the old ennui, Montand takes on a new assignment in Viet Nam. After he is listed as missing, wife and mistress separately recall the husband-lover who may be dead. Girardot muses over a few dry scraps of memories, while Bergen recites a maundering monologue: "I think I lost my youth ... a man of 40 stole it ... I'll fall in love with an American from Houston or Memphis . . . have children named John or Elizabeth . . ." After such a drizzly forecast, it is no wonder that when Montand is released by the Viet...