Word: montand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large areas of Paris while the cameras were rolling, and sponsored the U.S. premiere. The producers for their part contributed a big budget and a vast cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, Jean-Pierre Cassel, George Chakiris, Alain Delon, Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Gert Frobe, Yves Montand, Tony Perkins, Simone Signoret, Robert Stack, Orson Welles...
...private indoor tennis court-way up near the top of the status symbols. This week the most popular of contemporary French singers, a sturdy, dark-haired theatrical dervish named Gilbert Becaud, winds up a three-week run that has put him in that tiny company of performers-Chevalier, Borge, Montand, Aznavour-who can conquer a Broadway stage on their...
...Riviera he went shopping in Saint-Paul-de-Vence's steep, stony streets, tried his hand at lawn bowling, and like Yves Montand and Simone Signoret-wined and dined at the Colombe d'Or. Then it was on to Paris for a round of wreath-layings, ceremonials, and the more important business of lunching and chatting with De Gaulle, who knew just how to warm the heart of his Eastern neighbor...
...Marienbad" in favor of low-contrast greys which deliberately reduce the effect of the plot's melodramatic content. Although the visual construction is simpler than that of "Marienbad" and "Muriel," Resnais does insert short scenes which represent the imagination of the hero, a tired revolutionary played brilliantly by Yves Montand...
...talent found outside the Montand family, I was particularly impressed by Michel Piccoli, whose portrait of the unhappy clerk is a small masterpiece. Perspiring as freely as he fantasizes, nervously smoothing his sparse, slicked-down hair, and curling his lips into a tobacco-stained smile, Piccoli is simultaneously poignant, and repulsive. Charles Denner, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Claude Mann never fail to be compelling as a cynically belligerent smark aleck, Miss Signoret's languidly egotistical lover, and a charming but distant policeman, respectively...