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...crucial problem is that the theme, though powerful, is dreadfully familiar. Based on the autobiographical account of Artur London, former Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs in Czechoslovakia, Confession follows, moment by agonized moment, the arrest, interrogation, trial and conviction of an old-line Communist. Gerard (Yves Montand) is a Czech Jew who fought with the International Brigade in Spain, served in the French underground and was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp before returning to his homeland after World War II. Traces of Z are immediately apparent. On a gray January day in 1951, Gerard...
...contemporary New York. Arnold Scaasi designed her knockout New York wardrobe; Cecil Beaton did her up for the London sequences. What more could a girl want, except maybe a movie? Instead, she has Scenarist-Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner's drab romance of Daisy and Doctor Marc Chabot (Yves Montand). The girl's especuliarities drive Chabot mad-do you hear?-mad, mad, mad! But ultimately he learns that scientists must leave the infinite alone, and Daisy goes back to her star-playing lover Tad Pringle (Jack Nicholson...
...male principals perform in one consistent style: sheepish. Montand croons his numbers with the air of a man who wishes that he, too, were back in some earlier incarnation. Nicholson's part is at once minuscule and a giant trip backward from Easy Rider...
...without a net. "A diploma can't get you work in the theater," she decided. "But a part can." It did. She took parts with a repertory company and caromed around Europe. In Paris, Director Alain Resnais was looking for a young girl to co-star as Yves Montand's adolescent amour in La Guerre Est Finie. Geneviève transferred from the Parisian television screen to the film scene without missing a cue. She appeared opposite Alan Bates and Jean-Paul Belmondo, once as a madwoman, then as a spoiled heiress. The parts pinched...
...Yves Montand is perfect as Z's charismatic hero. Coutard's camera heightens his magnetism. Irene Pappas is, of course, magnificent as Lambrakis' widow. Her facial expressions speak for her suffering. Jean-Louis Tritignant ( A Man and a Woman, Ma Nuit Chez Maud ) plays the judge whose investigation, along with that of a crusading young journalist, exposes the fascists...