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...YVES MONTAND...
...Metropolitan Opera House obviously did not believe it. When the jaunty man in the black vest and open-necked shirt sauntered out from the wings, it was April in Paris and the giant stage was a boulevard: for the first time in nearly a quarter of a century, Yves Montand is once again on tour in America...
...Indeed, Montand, with his sad, weary, Bogart eyes, is best when he sings of love and melancholy, which seem, as he describes them, to be one and the same. Most audiences, moreover, will almost certainly know a bit of his history: his early romance with Edith Piaf, his brief affair with Marilyn Monroe and his long and enduring marriage to Actress Simone Signoret. Montand does not stand alone. He is surrounded by ghosts, memories and the soft, dusky glow of nostalgia...
Even those who had never read Camus became familiar with the chain-smoking figure in a trench coat, fatefully evocative of Bogart and Yves Montand. Much was made of his celebrated statement that in a purposeless world the only vital question was one of suicide. His novels The Stranger and The Fall describe souls out of touch with a moral landscape; The Plague watches townspeople succumb to a literal and spiritual disease. It is small wonder that at his death Camus seemed the spokesman of despairing existentialism, a cinematic figure as doom-ridden as any of his characters...
...YVES MONTAND, with his unshaven face and smiling eyes, making a boat motor in the garage or a classic French dinner in the red gas oven, seems remarkably at home in his role. But Deneuve cannot deliver a line or wrinkle up her face in an expression without looking like a spoilt child who can't take no for an answer. The problem lies not so much in her acting ability as it does in the part of Nelly itself...